Gown

The sound of Gown reached a new level of maturation during a year spent alone on a private island off the west coast of Canada. Deciding it was time to leave, he embarked on a two-month cross-continent tour playing in a duo with Christina Carter (Charalambides). They have several releases together, "We've on Digitalis," a split LP/CD with My Cat is An Alien and an upcoming CD on Free Porcupine Society. He also released a solo LP on Ecstatic Yod earlier this year, which along with his CD-R and cassette releases drew attention from The Wire, Dusted, 200lb Underground, and Arthur, amongst others. Some have compared Gown's music to The Dead C, Ash Castles On The Ghost Sand, Charalambides, and Loren Mazzacane, heady company indeed. Aside from the previously mentioned duo with Ms.Carter, Gown also plays in a duo with Thurston Moore called Bark Haze.