Flowertown - Half Yesterday 12"From a deckhand on a container ship idling in the bay, an excitable beachgoer, or a rubbernecker passing through an intersection: its as if youre floating around the city, people watching through a soft focus lens. Flowertown, the San Francisco duo of Karina Gill and Mike Ramos, return with the dreamy, temperate, Half Yesterday. Flowertowns previous album, Time Trials, focused on the slowing down of time, shutdowns, and a somber look at our day to day

𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕 𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛

transplant singing and playing guitar through 21 honest-to-goodness songs backed by a full band

” it sounds

Shiroishi has collaborated with everyone from epic post-rock maximalists Godspeed You

the band sits in an odd nether region somewhere between a brutalized ambience or conceptual exotica

is a journey disc in the form of a breakaway (literally A Breakaway

diffident cool

If you find yourself routinely menaced by everyday objects

Ruinmusic (1984) inhabits the last breath off the piano housed within the former Marienborg Manor

Clear vinyl

generally low-energy jams spotted with light

Paul is no longer here