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SEE ME RIVER is the kind of high-lonesome, live-free-or-die, hellhound-on-your-
trail folk-based rock that delights on the first toke, and screws all your senses up
by a couple more hits.
Time Machine is See Me River's second full-length, and comes on with a
relaxed sensuality, inviting the listener into its communal tribe-songs, until the
dark vibes of tracks like "Don't Pray For Blood" or "What I've Done" compel you
to play it more and more.
"Everybody could use one," bourbon-baritone vocalist Kerry Zettel says of the
album's title. "I can't recall how many times I've woken to vaguely recall the
evening before and thought to myself, 'Fuck …'" It makes sense to the listener
as moody, doomed songs of remorse and vengeance unroll, sparsely and
elegantly played by Zettel (who long-fronted Seattle quartet Das Llamas), along
with Joe Arnone (Charming Snakes, Band of Horses, Weirdlords), Tosten Larsen
(Thorstone), Kellie Payne (New Luck Toy, Charming Snakes) and fellow ex-
Llama Aaron Everett.
Recorded and produced by Nick Dewitt (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Night
Canopy, Dutch Dub), Time Machine incorporates instruments varying from
organ, autoharp, and glockenspiel, alongside sounds from cheese graters to an
actual shotgun blast. See Me River creates a multilayered landscape, subtle yet
gripping, with phonic guitars forming the backdrop to strong vocal harmonies.
Time Machine is a dual release from two much-buzzed labels, Zettel's own label
Aviation Records with Don't Stop Believin' Records (The Pharmacy, Team Gina,
The Dead Science), that shows the independent fire of the best new Seattle
music. Its ten tracks cover everything from wisdom learned during incarceration,
car wreck lifestyles, getting drunk and lost, and winding up back in rehab.
They're the kind of songs you want to sing while, or instead of, doing those
things.
Words on See Me River:
"A mesmerizing musical experience."
- Album of the Month, August '08, Seattle Sound Magazine
"The more conventionally pretty arrangements act as a counterpoint to Zettel's
haunted baritone... and the effect is perfect."
- Eric Grandy, The Stranger
"…loping and catchy and we've been listening to it nonstop for the last couple
days: in our chairs, in our homes, on the train, forever clapping along."
- The Fader blog
trail folk-based rock that delights on the first toke, and screws all your senses up
by a couple more hits.
Time Machine is See Me River's second full-length, and comes on with a
relaxed sensuality, inviting the listener into its communal tribe-songs, until the
dark vibes of tracks like "Don't Pray For Blood" or "What I've Done" compel you
to play it more and more.
"Everybody could use one," bourbon-baritone vocalist Kerry Zettel says of the
album's title. "I can't recall how many times I've woken to vaguely recall the
evening before and thought to myself, 'Fuck …'" It makes sense to the listener
as moody, doomed songs of remorse and vengeance unroll, sparsely and
elegantly played by Zettel (who long-fronted Seattle quartet Das Llamas), along
with Joe Arnone (Charming Snakes, Band of Horses, Weirdlords), Tosten Larsen
(Thorstone), Kellie Payne (New Luck Toy, Charming Snakes) and fellow ex-
Llama Aaron Everett.
Recorded and produced by Nick Dewitt (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Night
Canopy, Dutch Dub), Time Machine incorporates instruments varying from
organ, autoharp, and glockenspiel, alongside sounds from cheese graters to an
actual shotgun blast. See Me River creates a multilayered landscape, subtle yet
gripping, with phonic guitars forming the backdrop to strong vocal harmonies.
Time Machine is a dual release from two much-buzzed labels, Zettel's own label
Aviation Records with Don't Stop Believin' Records (The Pharmacy, Team Gina,
The Dead Science), that shows the independent fire of the best new Seattle
music. Its ten tracks cover everything from wisdom learned during incarceration,
car wreck lifestyles, getting drunk and lost, and winding up back in rehab.
They're the kind of songs you want to sing while, or instead of, doing those
things.
Words on See Me River:
"A mesmerizing musical experience."
- Album of the Month, August '08, Seattle Sound Magazine
"The more conventionally pretty arrangements act as a counterpoint to Zettel's
haunted baritone... and the effect is perfect."
- Eric Grandy, The Stranger
"…loping and catchy and we've been listening to it nonstop for the last couple
days: in our chairs, in our homes, on the train, forever clapping along."
- The Fader blog
