#unlettered

Photo by R. Melman On June 26, Unlettered, the innovative post-punk project spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Mike Knowlton, will release their anticipated new album Devil’s Bowl (pre-order). Today the band is excited to share the album’s final pre-release single “Bric-A-Brac” a sharp examination of commodification, identity, and information overload in the modern age, alongside…

Unlettered wields a fuzzed-up guitar clangor, burying distant, disembodied voices under vibrating piles of distortion. Shoegaze-y glamor slides off into post-rock dissonance, the surfaces glimmering, the tension roiling beneath them. You’ll get a good whiff of Kinski’s trance-y chug, some angular anarchy a la Polvo and the submerged melodic felicity of Bailter Space, especially circa Wammo.

Photo by K. Grimm Unlettered, the innovative post-punk project spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Mike Knowlton, is excited to share their new single “Leave Behind.” The track is the latest single to be released from theirnew album, Five Mile Point, out on November 22 (pre-order). “Leave Behind” debuted this week at Post-Punk and is on all streaming platforms for any playlist shares.  On the…

We are not alone

but… must we be connected?

Unfree from the tone –

makes me feel unprotected.

  It’s ubiquitous –

the signal from this device.

It’s continuous

and… relentless to entice.

  In real-time engaged,

are we what’s happening?

Thus we become caged –

unheard with no opening.

  Our lives are thus ruled –

by welcomed interference –

by non-presence – we are pulled,

un-one without deference.