THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE JANUARY 19TH RELEASE DATE.

A Grave With No Name is a band defined by the haze. In their milky, pre-dawn landscape - for this is arguably music for the wee hours - gauzy light obscures the harder contours, while pure melody and distortion, chasing each other like the wind and sun, flicker silver and grey like ghostly echoes of each other in the fog.

Spearheaded by lead singer/guitarist Alex Shields, along with bassist Tom King and drummer Anupa Madawela, A Grave With No Name's brittle yet fluid vision of music combines ethnic nostalgia, avant garde interpretations of folk and sheer abstraction - shadows and light, black and white, poetry and atmosphere - in a style which uniquely situates them in the current music scene. As evidenced by the tracks on Mountan Debris, their music slips easily through interpretation - too eccentric to be deemed as pop, too strange to be pigeonholed as rock, too odd and too beautiful all round, really - it instead has more in common with the true American mavericks of yore. The windswept opener "And We Parted Ways at Mt Jade" sounds like Mark Linkous singing into a canyon for instance, while "Ghosts and Stones" calls to mind Daniel Johnston at his playfully melodic.