Spokane is Rick Alverson's new "more solo" project. Having been the principal songwriter for Drunk for their four full-length records and two EPs, Alverson decided to explore a more personal vision with Spokane. "Leisure & Other Songs" was coproduced by Patrick Phelan, who also contributed instrumentation. Musically, it's a lush and uniquely mixed tapestry, involving a large number of instruments and players. It evokes the songcraft of Drunk, if it were less collaborative and more singularly arranged. It is   [ read more ]

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Spokane's second full-length finds quietness abundant in the most unlikely places. Written and produced by Rick Alverson (former frontman for Virginia-based band Drunk), this record, like the Close Quarters EP recently released by Spain's Acuarela Records, is a more dynamic expansion of the terse, melancholic and at times minimal compositions explored on last year's debut full-length Leisure & Other Songs. Draws from influences as diverse as Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, The Cure and Galaxie 500. [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Able Bodies is Spokane's fourth release in the brief space of 2 years. The most accomplished, varied and haunted of their recordings to date, it is a darker, more dynamically textured departure from the subtle arrangements of 2001's The Proud Graduates, all the while retaining the signature stillness that pervades the band's work. Bringing to mind the resonant and brittle ambience of the 4AD label in its heyday, these intricate and deliberate compositions accumulate an impression of what the London   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT + CD. In Richmond, VA, there's a small yellow cottage and an austere replica of a mid-19th Century white Federal period house. The members of Spokane built the structure while recording "Little Hours", their first new album in four years. The record is both a document of and an aural parallel to that difficult, meticulous process. It's the patient sheen of stillness after a short, violent burst of intention. The lingering, resonant decay of a nail being hammered into wood. A piano laden marriag   [ read more ]

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Spokane is not for people who want to belong to something. On "Measurement," their fourth full-length, a shift emerges from the terse, melodic strings that have marked their previous recordings, to a sparser terrain occupied by long, empty spaces and tenuous ambiences. With the addition of Robert Donne (Labradford, Breadwinner, Cristal) on bass, Rick Alverson and Courtney Bowles reduce their songs to an unsentimental narrative, stripped of excesses, resisting the grandiose crescendo that has become so popul   [ read more ]

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In Richmond, VA, there's a small yellow cottage and an austere replica of a mid-19th Century white Federal period house. The members of Spokane built the structure while recording Little Hours, their first new album in four years. The record is both a document of and an aural parallel to that difficult, meticulous process. It's the patient sheen of stillness after a short, violent burst of intention. The lingering, resonant decay of a nail being hammered into wood. A piano laden marriage of small hop   [ read more ]

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