"The High Highs, The Low Lows", originally released in 2003 on Pitch-A-Tent Records is available for the first time today via Bandcamp.
This was the second Koester album that I recorded down in Richmond VA with these Alan Weatherhead (producer), Miguel A Rodriguez-Urbiztondo, Tim Buckley, and John Atomm Daniels. I'm very pleased we're able to bring to you all now. In some ways it's approach feels very resonate with our most recent EP, "Porous." Maybe I'm on a 20 year cycle?
From Amazon: "if you dug the first koester record, which i did, this one's a real eye-opener: whereas 'oh turpentine' was a wee-hours, insomniac's tour of past romantic conquests and libidinous lost opportunities, 'high highs' is a blast of morning sunlight through a grimy bedroom window. less stripped down, more diverse -- with more rockers, and an almost 80s techno feel at times -- 'high highs' takes on familiar koester themes in engagingly unfamiliar ways. there's a sense here of conflicting genres being wrestled into submission, and, thankfully, they refuse to comply: the keyboard is, weirdly, king on this record, and provides the record's extreme moods, laying down pastoral orchestral overblow a la led zeppelin on 'blood red poppies' and busting out the kraftwerkian teutonic funk on 'vow' and 'transistor sister.' a truly ambitious, ante-upping sophomore effort from a fine songwriter, with heady production from sparklehorse-associate alan weatherhead."
Stay tuned for broader digital release plus a few extras...