Landing early January
Much-needed LP release
Super limited vinyl pressing of the first Nowhere Flower record, originally recorded at Lila Jarzombek's home in 2023 and released as a cassette the following year. You may recall us being head over heels for Heat Dome, the second Nowhere Flower LP that was released last year, and that love and admiration easily extends further back into these first utterances. Though buried beneath a gauze of tape hiss and bedroom klang, do not be mistaken - Jarzombek is an instinctively brilliant writer, with equal knack for both the earworm and the dissonant, and built from both conventional and less frequently heard instrumentation. If Heat Dome had a notably Jim Shepard/Xpressway feel to it, then the songs that make up Ruts the Place appear to be more noticeably tied to the psychedelic shitgaze and chemical imbalances of classic turn of the century Siltbreeze - think Un, Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings. It's the kind of singular, autodidactic music making that seems to best persist un-watched, the sound that happens when you leave something alone to work out its own way to bloom. As I said about Heat Dome, Nowhere Flower couldn't be any more of a perfect name in describing Jarzombek's vision. Implaccable it might be, but blossom it does.
FFO: Un, Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings, Times New Viking
