Watter is a new trio made up of close friends and
collaborators whose collective pedigree reads like a desert
island list of must-haves in experimental rock musicians.
Multi-instrumentalists Zak Riles (Grails) and Tyler Trotter
are anchored by legendary drummer Britt Walford (Slint,
Evergreen) on six genre-defying pieces of monolithic
mood music. For Riles and Trotter, it's a chance to dig
deeper into the sandbox in which Grails have sculpted
many mercurial masterpieces in recent years; for Walford,
it's the opportunity to play a substantial role in a new active
band for the first time in nearly twenty years.
Written, recorded, and produced entirely in the group's
collective studios in Louisville, KY, This World is a stunning
combination of heady psychedelic rock, vintage cinematic
New Age explorations, and sinister Krautrock, performed
with seemingly endless stamina. Born out of many
late-night jam sessions, many songs also feature fellow
Louisville icons - Rachel Grimes (Rachel's) provides
several of the album's most sublime moments, and The
For Carnation's Todd Cook lays the heavy, bass-driven
foundation for the penultimate epic, ''Seawater.''
This World is the kind of album that inspires renewed
wonder in the mysterious powers of Louisville's water
supply. It draws impossibly broad inspiration from decades
of Eastern and Western folk, rock, ambient, film score,
library music, and neoclassical, and masterfully emerges
with an ever-enveloping suite perfectly befitting its
constantly curious composers.
TRACK LISTING
1. Rustic Fog (7:02)
2. Lord I Want More (2:15)
3. Small Business (13:32)
4. Bloody Monday (4:22)
5. Seawater (12:51)
6. This World (6:44)