Rooting for Microbes

From the sooty corridors of the rusted-out skeleton of Baltimore, Nautical Almanac have taken the urban crack of electronic halftime entertainment and dragged it squarely into the times of horse and buggies. As the band clearly states, no electricity or computers were used in their music-making process. The sounds are from machines specifically built for the recording process, or from real lab experience, and custom equipment made from weird alloys of plastic, leather, wire, and rubber. Longtime collaborators CARLY PTAK and TWIG HARPER worked on this record, along with 10 other guests (Forcefield, Paperrad, and Costes associates were all involved). Nautical Almanac is an integral forefather of much of the Midwest noise scene. If you wanna understand the throb of shirtless noise boys and girls in Michigan, climb onto this crisco-coated locomotive and get the real deal.