Clogs are a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Australia's Padma Newsome, both men familiar from their
membership in the acclaimed rock band, The National. Clogs are Newsome (viola/violin/melocica/voice/piano), Bryce Dessner (guitar/ukelele), Rachael Elliott (bassoon/melodica), and Thomas Kozumplik (percussion)....more
Erik was one of the first musicians Bryce Dessner befriended when he moved to New York, and this is his debut solo album. Erik returned the favor by appearing on Clogs' "Stick Music" album. Clogs
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Despite the title, implying "delight," the haunting lyrical subjects of Archangel Gabriel's messages from G-d, silence and the disaster of the world, a hare and an owl's bloodthirsty, bloodied love story, and a sister's painfulness after a failed love, this is a "delight" wrapped up for a melancholic hopelessness that wrestles the listener's catharsis free from the coils of a broken, twisted heart.... aurals