Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson - Rain Shadow (Black Vinyl)

Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson - Rain Shadow (Black Vinyl)Golden Retriever and Chuck Johnson are artists unified by their ability to build entire ecosystems of sound. As Golden Retriever, bass clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff and synthesist Matt Carlson blur the lines between their respective instruments while guitarist Chuck Johnson is lauded for crafting a diversity of atmospheres, be it through fingerstyle acoustic or droning pedal steel. The combined powers of the trio is intoxicating. On their debut album,

That instead will be its pulverising soundscape

I Hate Myself as it delivers a look at responsibility

resonance and the sheer materiality of sound

ZAZA sonically contrast from their guitar-pop brethren in favor of something darker

Kelela lends her snaking vocals to the intriguingly murky “From the Ground

After two years of seemingly endless tours

prismatic atmosphere of strings

arrangement

the band and their label Famous Class are taking a beat to revisit how they got here

drum programming)

The debut album from Chicago based Deeper

which lead to a string of DIY EPs and the professionally recorded LP debut Starlite Walker