Date
Wednesday 29 October 2014 at 7:30pm
Location
Ruby Lounge
28-34 High Street,
Manchester,
M4 1QB,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-(0)161-8341392
Web: http://www.therubylounge.com/index.php/shows/a-concert-in-aid-of-salford-food-bank
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After a dormant period following the Gallery EP in 2012, Craft Spells’ Justin Vallesteros is back with the gorgeously ambitious Nausea. It’s Craft Spells 2nd proper full length LP & 1st since 2010′s critically acclaimed Idle Labor.
Since last on the radar, Justin moved to San Francisco to find a niche in the Bay Area music scene. This proved difficult within the regarded garage rock scene & insular DJ night crowds currently dominating the area’s music community. Here, Justin fell into a slump, creatively. With a severe bout of writer’s block he retreated to his parent’s house in Lathrop, CA. Away from the city, he put down his guitar for a full year in favor of properly training himself on piano, the instrument from which all the tracks for Nausea were written.
This is a bold, beautiful & lush new sound emphasizing the songwriting abilities Vallesteros always had. An album highlighted by loads of piano, real strings & acoustic guitar, this change is like the color coming alive in the Wizard of Oz. The beautiful “Komorebi” with it’s piano chord progression & sorrowful string accompaniment emphasizes this newfound maturity & confidence as a writer that is the next logical step in Craft Spells’ career.
Nausea could easily have been a record rife with indecision & anxiety. But like the song for which the album is named, Craft Spells was able to turn the chaos and disillusionment into a work that provides ammo against that very thing, with beauty, vision & melody.
+ CLAW THE THIN ICE + RACE TO THE SEA
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Price: £8 adv
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