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San Francisco's The Franciscan Hobbies return with their fourth full-length album (& second proper CD) of cooperative folk-noise & abstract nature processionals. Based around Thuja-explorers Glenn Donaldson, Loren Chasse & Rob Reger, this free-form musical body also encompasses another half-dozen friends from likeminded bands such as The Muons, The Buried Civilizations, Leaf Yard & The Shitty Listeners. The title Walls are Stuck was inspired by a quote from Pandit Pran Nath: ìInside, walls are stuck; outside, ideas fly in all directions.î The Hobbies have been known to put this into practice by taking their junk folkñinstruments, boomboxes & mini-discs outside, gathering in canyons, creek beds, backyards, and on porches & beaches. The Franciscan Hobbies are part of the expansive Jewelled Antler forest of bands & projects. Jewelled Antler Co-founders Glenn Donaldson & Loren Chasse have been involved in creating over 25 CD-Rís, CDís, records & tapes, ranging from straight field recordings to multi-layered psych-pop music to rumbling drones. Glenn Donaldson also appears as The Ivytree, The Birdtree, The Skygreen Leopards, the Blithe Sons & a dozen others, recording for such labels as Catsup Plate, Jagjaguwar, Fat Cat, Family Vineyard, Emperor Jones & 267 Lattajja. Fellow Blithe Son, Loren Chasse records as OF & is also a member of The Child Readers & Coelacanth, with releases on Anomalous, Mallard Lake, Emperor Jones & Family Vineyard. Praise for previous Franciscan Hobbies albums: ìStormier and more anarchic than other Jewelled Antler groupings, The Hobbiesí largely avoid the Wordsworthian rapture of Blithe Sons in favor of a sinisterly beautiful tangle of sounds. Masks and Meanings begins in tight focus ñ with a fevered spiral of eastern-sounding string picking ñ and is slowly broadened by the gentle clanging and wheezing of instruments.î ñ Dusted |
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