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Articles by Angela Sheil
LarkFest headliners Prince Daddy & The Hyena take off
Earlier this year, the Albany punk quartet Prince Daddy & The Hyena began using the rocket ship emoji to promote their sophomore album Cosmic Thrill Seekers—a three-act concept record about space, the Wizard of Oz and depression—on their social media accounts. At first, members of the band and their team (their PR person, their label, the album’s guest musicians, etc.) used the emoji.
Strange Ranger’s Isaac Eiger on the lyrical and emotional turmoil of Daymoon
Just over a year after Strange Ranger followed up the soaring, ambitious Rot Forever LP with the starkly sedated Sunbeams Through Your Head EP, the Portland trio-turned-duo returned earlier this month with Daymoon; their most lush, diverse work to date. The 15-track opus oscillates between the visceral climaxes of Rot Forever and the balmy textures of Sunbeams, ultimately finding a comfortable medium that ripens their signature sound in a way that feels like a natural progression.
Trapped Under Ice delivers original, inclusive hardcore punk
In the six years since 2011’s Big Kiss Goodnight established them as one of hardcore’s household names, Trapped Under Ice have become to punk music in the 2010s what Wu-Tang Clan were to hip-hop in the ‘90s; they’re the homebase for a whole network poised for total domination. Turnstile, Angel Du$t, Down To Nothing and Diamond Youth have almost all become household names of their own within the last few years, and each band contains at least one member from the TUI clique.
Candy Ambulance: managing trauma and taking up space in "Traumantic"
“I think I take up so much space sometimes,” Caitlin Barker of Candy Ambulance told me one bright, February afternoon in Hudson. Candy Ambulance, the wiry rock trio comprised of Barker, Jesse Bolduc and Jon Cantiello, were recording their first full-length album Traumantic with Tommy Stinson (The Replacements, Guns ‘N’ Roses). Their latest work has collectively become their proudest, not only because they feel they’re at their tightest musically, but because it taps into their emotions.
Kristin Hayter of Lingua Ignota on becoming divine vengeance - The Collaborative
Armed with righteous anger, a devastating voice, classical musical training, a BFA in literature from Brown University and an eerie aptitude for relating the human experience, Kirsten Hayter has become retribution personified through her compositions as Lingua Ignota. The depth and complexity of her three musical works Let The Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him, All Bitches Die and the recently-released Caligula defy easy summation, or even lengthy review.
M. Lamar’s compositions paint the black experience in America as Gothic horror
The only thing you should expect when first talking to M. Lamar—soprano, diva, composer, artist, actor, author, provocateur—is that you’ll be playing catch up the entire time.
Alan Sparhawk of Low on pushing creative boundaries - The Collaborative
Photo by Shelly Mosman Alan Sparhawk, age 50, and his wife Mimi Parker, 51, have been Low for 27 years. That is three times longer than most American marriages last. Friends since they were 9 years old the pair were already married when they started Low in 1993. Their first release, I Could Live in Hope, set the standard for a genre of music that at the time was labeled “Slowcore” for its stark, plodding, stripped-down arrangements.
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