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Orchid Eaton: Low slung ceilings; a persistent hum; colors flashing in the dark.
More accurately, the recording duo of Brian Moen (Shouting Matches, Peter Wolf Crier, Laarks) and Matt Leavitt (EMOT).

‘Where All Ends Meet’ is their sophomore effort. This album was created in separate spaces, shared back & forth through the ether, before and during everything came to a dreaded pause. It’s a vain hope but also illuminating; a thread to walk, many chances to heal. Brian and Matt have been taking turns living in intermediate states (welcoming babies and losing a mom and a dad-in-law). Where threads are tied and untied and on and on. Matter neither being created or destroyed.

Even objects live past lives. Craigslist soundboards, thrift store keyboards, cigarette smoke microphones, tape machines suffused with stories. These songs passed through analog equipment in their respective home studios, required into electric current, squeezed and smoothed into a hazy hug. A comfort; like swaying of grass in the wind; witness to the beauty, the horror. Of all.

It may be a cheap way to prolong death, but these machines and tools are Orchid Eaton’s preferred wavelength. The nine songs are a rumination and acceptance of impermanence, birth and death, as much as can be considered. All are past and present at once. Maybe in some form they live forever. These songs were purposely constructed but patiently waited for; like a cup being filled by ground water that once fell as rain. Down to the center where there are always layers lower, those that ring truest in our heart of hearts.

Yellow Ostrich is an experimental indie rock project centered around singer/songwriter Alex Schaaf. Emerging in 2009, Schaaf's lo-fi/bedroom pop emissions were eventually fleshed out by a handful of co-conspirators, and the band issued five more and a handful of EPs before going on hiatus after the release of 2014's Cosmos. Yellow Ostrich reformed as a five-piece in 2021 and released the lush and inward-looking Soft. 

The band originally began as a solo project for Schaaf, who made lo-fi indie pop on his four-track recorder. After relocating from Wisconsin to New York, Schaaf self-released a full-length album, titled Wild Comfort, in January of 2010. It was quickly followed by a series of EPs -- Fade Cave EP, The Morgan Freeman EP, and The Serious Kids EP -- which were made available for free download. Yellow Ostrich's sophomore album, The Mistress, featuring the song "Mary," followed in 2011. In 2012, Schaaf and his Yellow Ostrich bandmates Michael Tapper and Jon Natchez returned with the decidedly more forceful and anthemic Strange Land. Also in 2012, Yellow Ostrich released the six-song EP Ghost. After Ghost, Natchez announced he had left the band, replaced by longtime touring members Jared Van Fleet and Zach Rose. In 2014, Yellow Ostrich returned with its third full-length album, the Carl Sagan-inspired Cosmos. The group disbanded shortly after the album's release, and Schaaf spent the next several years issuing music under his own name, the highlights of which were compiled on 2021's Like a Bird: An Alex Schaaf Anthology 2010-2021. That same year saw the return of Yellow Ostrich, who released the deeply reflective Soft.

Kansas Plates is an instrumental project playing music that nods to the past and future with their own blend of Cosmic Americana. A heady guitar led journey through nostalgic sounds and styles.