KINDLING "Everywhere Else"

No Idea ReleaseNIR-354 Released: August 12, 2016 • BLUE 150-GRAM VINYL (LTD. to 200) Everywhere Else by KINDLING Everywhere Else: A vague sense of want, of escape, or of resignation. Reconciling the limitations of your surroundings with the endlessness of earthly potential. Kindling has made their home in this space: between the dirt and the stars, conscious of the weight of life's anchors, trying to outpace and shed them. Building on the foundation of 2015's Galaxies EP, the band has zoomed out on the map to present a fuller view of their topography: the succinct punk-influenced noise-pop of Galaxies refocused into what is at turns scorchingly anthemic and quietly understated fuzzed-out bliss on Everywhere Else. The band - led by Stephen Pierce and Gretchen Williams - spent a week at Sonelab in rural Easthampton, MA with Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Speedy Ortiz, Sonic Youth, etc.), resulting in a dynamically layered monolith of towering guitar noise & wistfully hazy vocals, balancing deafening heaviness with a lightness and beauty; a pop sensibility rarely found when the volume and attack ends up this far in the red.  From the opening barrage of Coma through the droning guitar outro of Became, Everywhere Else is a geography of peaks and valleys, demonstrating dramatic growth in the short months between it & the Galaxies EP. With their most clearly defined and ambitious set of songs to date, Kindling has taken a leap forward, exploring far beyond the outer reaches of the blueprints laid out thus far, at once cloaked in shadow and drenched in sunlight, celestial but distinctly of this world. Kindling is:  Stephen Pierce: Guitar / Vocals Gretchen Williams: Vocals / Guitar Andrew Skelly: Drums Jeffrey Stevens: Guitar Aaron Snow: Bass   Track Listing:  1. Coma 2. Given 3. Blinding Wave 4. Black Eye 5. Weightlessly  6. Lose Your Breath 7. Galaxies 8. Capital Cities 9. Other Times 10. Vegvísir 11. Perennial  12. Became Produced by Justin Pizzoferrato & Stephen Pierce Recorded & Mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton MA Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering Artwork by Meghan Minior / Static Frame Design Photography by Reid Haithcock