Insound Staff Pick - 2008! An active four-piece for a little more than a year now, Religious Knives have presided over a pair of twelve-inches, a couple of collections of out of print singles and long gone burns, and one full-length. All throughout, these four have traced a path away from the clamor they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals, and solemn basslines in reedy organs and recalcitrant modular synths. The seemingly tin eared would call it noise, but in these eight hands such a se...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Religious Knives is Maya Miller, Michael Bernstein and Nate Nelson residing in Brooklyn. Maya and Michael run the Heavy Tapes cassette and art label and have played over 100 improvised shows with New York Drone mainstays Double Leopards. Nate Nelson co-runs the Our Mouth label and plays with kings of brutality Mouthus. Religious Knives is an extended song-based trio who explore the finer points of the "now" - an elusive thing, at best. Transitioning from improvised noise to tight melodic inve...   [ read more ]

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Religious Knives is Maya Miller, Michael Bernstein and Nate Nelson residing in Brooklyn. Maya and Michael run the Heavy Tapes cassette and art label and have played over 100 improvised shows with New York Drone mainstays Double Leopards. Nate Nelson co-runs the Our Mouth label and plays with kings of brutality Mouthus. Religious Knives is an extended song-based trio who explore the finer points of the "now" - an elusive thing, at best. Transitioning from improvised noise to tight melodic inverted song form...   [ read more ]

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