Harbors

VINYL FORMAT. "For the past four years, I've been listening to All Tiny Creatures, living to All Tiny Creatures. It began with a demo attributed to Thomas Wincek, a guy I only knew as being in the venerable Collections of Colonies of Bees and the brain behind Emotional Joystick, 'Sure, I'll put it on.' A day later, I'd played the songs no less than a dozen times over. They'd taken root; some guy in Wisconsin just gets it. I'd long-loved Harmonia, Neu, Cluster, Heldon, and King Crimson, like some time-traveler wanting to get back to her native 1972 - but All Tiny Creatures taught me why.

Two years after that first listen, Thomas Wincek multiplied by four into All Tiny Creatures and Hometapes collaborated with the band on the release of Segni, a four-track 12" EP and instrumental thunderclap of skill, theory, and intention. By then, Wincek, along with his Collections of Colonies of Bees bandmates and Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon, was now a force behind the band Volcano Choir. With a mind stretched across projects, not to mention life with a young family in Madison, Wisconsin, Wincek seemed to run on some hidden aquifer of ideas and energy. Enter Andrew Fitzpatrick, Ben Derickson, and Matthew Skemp: All Tiny Creatures' evolution was becoming a group effort.

Harbors, like any great album, defines its artists and has the power to further define its listener. It's meticulous and soulful. All Tiny Creatures began adding the human voice right as the instrumental Segni was hot off the presses, bringing in friends and collaborators old and new to conceptualize and vocalize with the eleven compositions that would grow into the album. The process was audibly liberating; these were instruments that could talk back, that could translate All Tiny Creatures' music into multiple languages. Harbors is an album of transformative repetition, pulling from the same well as their Krautrock forebears, guys like Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and even the greater history of rhythmic percussion found the world over. Via guitars, drums, synths, and computers, All Tiny Creatures captures the mood of a sunrise, the mood of a factory line, and the mood inside your head, all at once. This is truly modern music." - Sara Padgett Heathcott, Hometapes Records

Joining All Tiny Creatures vocalists Thomas Wincek and Andrew Fitzpatrick are Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Roberto Carlos Lange (Helado Negro & Epstein), Phil Cook, Brad Cook, and Joe Westerlund (Megafaun), Ryan Olcott (12 Rods, Mystery Palace), Matthew Byars (The Caribbean), and Jennifer Fitzpatrick.