#louis weeks

Today Louis Weeks officially released his new record haha

Earlier this year I was asked by Louis guitar player and main collaborator Noah Berman to help them reproduce the new record live and what an honor it has been!

We’ve been playing shows in Washington D.C, NY and Baltimore (next week) and it’s been a great experience to play this wonderful music with a very talented crew of musicians from DC and New York Ethan Helm and Jonathan Parker on saxophones, Matt Honor on drums and Xaq Rothman on bass. 

Get it on bandcamp!

This past weekend we drove up into the wild hills of Maryland to Beat Babies Recording Studio, domain of engineer extraordinaire Chris Freeland. Chris recorded our heroes Wye Oak and lowerdens​, and local homies Letitia Van Sant and ROM (among many others), so we felt very lucky to be there and very much at home. Dave dutifully documented our time there, see below for the evidence. And some tiny snippets of sound, but don’t get yr hopes up. Yet. -x

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The emerging talent that is Baltimore's Louis Weeks catches our ear today as he steps above the crowd of folk-tinged singer/songwriters by combining his skills of traditional melodic songcraft and electronic composition.

Prior to 2011, much of his work seems to have been fairly standard acoustic fare, not bad, but not too remarkable either. Last year, however, things began to pick up: from compositional work for modern dance and performance art to pieces for prepared piano, it was clear that Weeks' musical palette was expanding and his more personal music has benefited greatly from it. Both the subtly textural 'Clementine', ear-marked for a forthcoming full length, and the glitchy, guitar-based 'Bloodline' are evidence of a musician who has found his "voice", maintaining the same honest intimacy from his previous work but embellished and vastly improved by the attention to detail and lightness of touch of his production and skills of electronic composition. Hopefully Weeks will continue to look forward rather than back in terms of his output, and if so, Baltimore may have a quite exceptional musical talent on their doorstep.

So here is 'Bloodline', we also highly recommend you check out the aforementioned 'Clementine', the track that got our attention, on his bandcamp where much of his previous material is also available to stream.