Marshweed's "Point of Contact"
Out on April 25th. Record Release at MorYork.
Marshweed’s new album out on April 25th!
“In the wide world some music is personal and literal self expression and some is poetic abstraction but Lockie’s music is so personal and so literal that it creates its own form of extremist poetry. And lots of this stuff was first dreamed up during the pandemic, about Lockie’s pets and reading material and stuff. Which makes “my gun is the great equalizer, it lives under the bed” all the more disturbing. In this record you get that sound like if Neil and Poncho played violin and viola and you get stuff that sounds like nothing else (but is mysterious and grand) and you get the Beach Boys if they just didn’t care about you and you get about ten minutes of Darmstadt 1973 and then they suddenly pull out a totally classic melody in the chorus of Walking Alone, (you know, the kind that ordinary sane people would build a hit single around and repeat 100 times to do stuff like pay the rent) but they are Marshweed. They don’t repeat it ever. You are here for the journey, not the destination, if there even is one. It’s Lockie’s unique musical voice and imagination.”
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About Marshweed
Marshweed is the music of Los Angeles-based composer, songwriter, and violist Heather Lockie. Lockie has arranged strings for and/or played with: Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall/Mikal Cronin, Wand, Cory Hanson solo, David Kendricks (DEVO), others. Lockie draws from a diverse musical background when writing music and is partial to improvisational accidents. Her works often include string arrangements, close vocal harmonies, field recordings, specific tunings, found sounds, and small percussive objects. Heather is an original song-a-dayer, having participated regularly since the very first sadfam of January 2014. We’re thrilled to be releasing her new album on SADFAM Records!
Merch + MorYork Show
Join us on April 25th, 7pm for the Marshweed record release concert at MorYork in Highland Park, Los Angeles. Opening set by Pauline Lay. There will be all kinds of wonderful Marshweed merch items, including t-shirts and homemade soaps (pictured above). See you there!