Tristen - Aquatic Flowers - VINYL LP

Hailing from Nashville, Tenn.'s rollicking roots-rock scene, Tristen has established herself as a prolific, versatile musician over the past two decades. Her knack for crafting captivating melodies and whip smart lyrics has attracted high-profile collaborations. She co-wrote Love is an Art, the latest album by Vanessa Carlton, and toured with Jenny Lewis as part of her Voyager band.Her folk-oriented 2011 debut Charlatans at the Garden Gate earned her praise as InchNashville's best-kept secretInch (The Boston Globe), while 2013's CAVES, co-produced by Stephen Hague, recasted her as a hypnotic Inchsynth pop sirenInch (SPIN). Sneaker Waves was released in 2017 and marked her transition to crafting her music and music videos completely in her home studio with long time collaborator and husband Buddy Hughen. Rolling Stone described it as having InchNilsson-worthy power balladry,Inch while NPR's Ann Powers called it Inchbursting with great melodies and hooky arrangements that tickle the ear and won't leave your brain alone.Inch2021 saw the of Aquatic Flowers, with Talkhouse proclaiming InchShe's one of those songwriters and performers absolutely beloved by other musicians, and for good reason. She's a risk-taker in the studio, venturing out into unknown territory and pretty much always finding something at least interesting, and often incredibleInch.Her fifth studio album, Unpopular Music, comes out in October, featuring contributions from Wilco's Pat Sansone, Vanessa Carlton, Becca Mancari, Erin Rae and Natalie Prass. With that will come a long awaited return to touring, continuing a career that's seen her share stages with Robyn Hitchcock, Television, Ezra Furman and the Mountain Goats. It is an examination of the filtering process by which records are unselected for public consumption. Album Tracks 1. Because Your Love Is Mine 2. Hey la 3. Skin of Our Teeth

Across the arc of Tristan Allen's epiphanic, four-part journey, Tin Iso and the Dawn, the New York based composer and puppeteer brings sonic life to a fantastical realm of characters whose universal longings mirror our own. In the first of this mythic trilogy, intricate sound design and spellbinding leitmotifs make sense of loss and what's beyond.Formative exposures by way of travel through Asia, studies in Gamelan, a paper mache Christmas angel, and their dad's Bread and Puppet Theater artifacts formed a web of inspiration from which Tristan's desire to combine puppetry and their fascination for the narrative power of instrumental music emerged. Years of synchronistic inspirational encounters with Inchguardian angelsInch in the form of music mentors and puppeteer masters incentivized Tristan to pursue a project where they could focus on sound and diverse instrumentation. Through this impulse, Tristan ceremoniously constructed the imaginary world of Tin Iso and the Dawn, loosely based on Wagner's three act opera Tristan und Isolde. Composed and recorded between 2015 and 2022 across apartments from Boston to Brooklyn, with field recordings from locations of vivid sentiment Upstate New York-where Tristan grew up, Quebec-where most of their close family lives, and Japan-where they lived briefly as a child, each moment of Tin Iso glimmers with nostalgic immediacy and the prescience of new voyages unfolding.By composing for acoustic instruments, arranging and processing electronically, and performing the music through puppetry, Tin Iso emerged as the project that could finally satisfy Tristan's desire to consolidate and cohere wide-ranging musical interests and an unyielding fascination for fantasy and myth. Combining music and puppetry allowed Tristan to build an imaginary world from scratch. Channeling their awe of folklore through a love of storytelling and the liber

The celebrated brooklyn band returned from a year of touring and entered their studio. The despair of hospice and the subsequent recovery of burst apart felt like a closed chapter and there was a newfound freedom to change the subject. Creative instincts lead them to the ambitious and enthralling sounds of undersea - an ep in length, but well beyond that in scope. Album Tracks 1. Drift Dive 2. Endless Ladder 3. Crest 4. Zelda