Over a years after launching their self-titled 3rd LP, space-rock revival duo Secret Makers went back to making music after a turbulent duration having a hard time to acquire footing with a record label. The tunes on their follow-up to that 2020 LP and
a set of EPs
previously this year– The Moth, the Lizard, and the Secret Makers, which is slated for a February 17 release– are the settled variations of the recordings Brandon Curtis and Josh Garza (signed up with on the brand-new album by guitar player Phil Karnats) had actually been playing with prior to their hiatus. “Thematically, we were feeling lost and puzzled,” Garza remembers, “and simply promoting me, I remained in a delicate state, mentally. I believe this record shows that, rather truthfully.”
Yet instead of feeling spread, the concepts that comprise the brand-new album have a more actively deconstructed feel, with the clanking 2nd single “You Desired It Even worse” flawlessly integrating completely distinct layers of noise under Curtis’ staccato singing shipment. “‘ The fire-alarm guitars, the shit-faced Vince Guaraldi piano, and the stamping-plant drums formed with a naturalness that eventually allured the singing part into this unsteady alloy that sort of melts in between the fractures and craters of the remainder of the production,” Curtis shares of the single, which supplied a plan for the remainder of the album’s track list. “Listening to it today raises sensations of yearning and otherness. Advises me of the futility of wanting things might be various than they are.”(*) Hear the track listed below, and pre-order the album (*) here(*)(*)
