Kindling (featuring members of Ampere) released their debut LP on No Idea this Summer. Entitled Everywhere Else, the LP follows up the band’s 2015 EP, Galaxies, also on No Idea.
The video for “Black Eye” is premering exclusively on Heartbreaking Bravery.
Everywhere Else previously premiered in full on Spin. Check out a conversation with Kindling + the premiere of “Other Times” on Allston Pudding. Also “Capital Cities” previously premiered on The AV Club and “Weightlessly” on Stereogum.
Everywhere Else: A vague sense of want, of escape, or of resignation. Reconciling the limitations of your surroundings with the endlessness of earthly potential. Kindling has made their home in this space: between the dirt and the stars, conscious of the weight of life’s anchors, trying to outpace and shed them. Building on the foundation of 2015’s Galaxies EP, the band has zoomed out on the map to present a fuller view of their topography: the succinct punk-influenced noise-pop of Galaxies refocused into what is at turns scorchingly anthemic and quietly understated fuzzed-out bliss on Everywhere Else. The band – led by Stephen Pierce and Gretchen Williams – spent a week at Sonelab in rural Easthampton, MA with Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Speedy Ortiz, Sonic Youth, etc.), resulting in a dynamically layered monolith of towering guitar noise & wistfully hazy vocals, balancing deafening heaviness with a lightness and beauty; a pop sensibility rarely found when the volume and attack ends up this far in the red.
From the opening barrage of Coma through the droning guitar outro of Became, Everywhere Else is a geography of peaks and valleys, demonstrating dramatic growth in the short months between it & the Galaxies EP. With their most clearly defined and ambitious set of songs to date, Kindling has taken a leap forward, exploring far beyond the outer reaches of the blueprints laid out thus far, at once cloaked in shadow and drenched in sunlight, celestial but distinctly of this world.
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