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Fort Worth Weekly
Carried on by the Storms at Sea
A transatlantic collaboration releases its debut 7-inch as an expressive tribute to the late local musician/artist Nevada Hill.
By PATRICK HIGGINS
Though Hill would not see the final product, a posthumous performance sweetens the results.
Courtesy of Chris Plavidal
A dirge is a funeral song. A low-thrum lament to express grief or as an accompaniment for the departed on their journey to whatever it is that exists after death. A dirge can be somber, beautiful, and exalting. On their debut, Texas/U.K. psyche-noise duo Storms at Sea captures this mournful essence. Their new self-titled 7-inch reworks the atmosphere of a slow-burning New Orleans funeral march into experimental loop-based expressionism. Layers of distorted guitar drones swirl around bright horns, aggressive strings, and thundering toms, creating a sonic squall of angelic melancholy. The result is fitting of what it’s meant to be: a tribute to a lost fr
Fort Worth Weekly
The Cush Ride Above the Hate
The veteran psych-rock quartet signs with Ben Harper’s Mad Bunny Records and drops a new single from an upcoming full-length.
By PATRICK HIGGINS
Burette Douglas: “We’ve been doing this a long time, and I don’t want to say you get jaded, but at some point, the magic kind of gets taken out of it. But you just keep doing it because you can’t stop doing it.”
Photo by Ben Garrett.
Life is strange and tends to move at its own unforgiving pace. It’s difficult, in the moment, to recognize when the first few steps down a new path are being taken, especially when the strides can take decades to reach their ultimate destination. The relationships you make along the way may see players shift in and out over the years, only to have them suddenly solidify and take on a new significance. Such is the case with the Fort Worth psych-rock outfit The Cush. A friendship that began nearly 20 years ago has led to the band’s r