Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2018 debut album from L.A.-based Scottish singer/songwriter Sarah Grace McLaughlin AKA Bishop Briggs, who has been penned as one of 2018's most important breakout artists. Church Of Scars includes the single 'White Flag,' which is building at Alternative radio. The album also includes previous hits, 'River' and 'Wild Horses,' which have been featured on a variety of television shows and commercials. In a rave review, Jenna Mohammed, writing for Exclaim! Called McLaughlin's voice Inchimmensely powerfulInch. Mohammed described the album as Inchhigh-energy from start to finishInch, and that her Inchstyle and essence is very reminiscent of Florence + the Machine and Banks, but she sets herself apart through intense beat drops and her gospel choir rootsInch.

Despite (perhaps) being the band's most accessible & melodic work to date, New York quartet Sunwatchers' fourth album arrives in a flurry of notes with the buzzing hum of InchSunwatchers vs. Tooth DecayInch; the title referencing a 1976 album featuring athlete and activist Muhammad Ali. A cheeky nod to be sure, but laced with the utmost reverence. This attitude sums up Sunwatchers' aesthetic in a nutshell; the acknowledgement (typically via the band's irreverent song titles or album art) that the things in life we should take seriously are better faced and understood when disarmed by a wink or nudge. The band may cloak their fiery activism in a jester's outfit, but it does nothing to dull the force of their attack. The one-two punch of InchLove PasteInch & InchBrown IceInch hits next, with the former's tender opening melody punctuated by exuberant InchWOO!Inchs while the latter launches into an urgent, stuttering march that utilizes an effective musical wind-up and , ratcheting up a ferocious intensity across it's near six minute runtime. InchThee Worm StoreInch closes out the first side, beginning with a lumbering synth growl, until it picks up speed and ends as a frantic noisy free-for-all. Side two strides forth with InchThe ConchInch, an obvious 'Lord of The Flies' reference, and a delicious subversion of the idea of a Inchhero's anthemInch weighted down by the trappings of tribalism. The album's showstopper however is InchThe Earthsized ThumbInch, the near twenty-minute closing track. Guitarist Jim McHugh lays down a hypnotic Saharan guitar melody as the rest of the band ushers themselves in one by one over the tune's distinct musical movements, a cosmic InchQuick OneInch for all the heads perhaps? The album's title InchOh Yeah?Inch is at once an homage to Mingus, Thee Oh Sees' album InchHelpInch (whose Brigid Dawson hand-sewed the tapestry adorning the album's

Sunwatchers - II [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/09/2018