Clear cassette, Colour j-card, Edition of 100, 2025

Swirling, visceral, delicate. It's just what you need today, to get you out of your worried head and back inside your tired body. Two multi-instrumentalists and close friends slightly and slowly pushing the boundaries of song and not-song, in-tune or who-cares. These are the sounds and images that come to you just before you drift off to sleep.

Some of the improvised elements sound composed, while the songs seem to come together magically at the last minute. It's almost the definition of “not for everyone,” but in no sense is it elitist or obscurantist for its own sake. And just when you think it's a bit too sweet, you get clobbered by a bee swarm of droning riffs.

Hopefully it's the first of many recordings from this duo, who met at an art opening of Lila’s work in Portland in 2022, then Lila joined the Spatulas as lead guitarist for the West Coast version of the band. Both Nowhere Flower and the Spatulas already have busy new years planned.

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