Evan Patterson, brother to Ryan, was a co-founder of the National Acrobat, later moving on to metalcore behemoth Breather Resist before settling into Young Widows, the dark post-hardcore trio he commands to this day (his focus of late has shifted to his austere, ramblin’ project Jaye Jayle). Together, the Patterson brothers helped usher the city’s revered scene into the 2000s, and in Young Widows Evan has long been able to finesse a track from rumbling din to sinister yarn. He leads with a southern drawl that today sounds even more drenched in Old Forester than it did on 2008’s Old Wounds. That seminal record carved out a spot for the trio in the Louisville post-hardcore canon, and it’s one that can be as towering (“Old Skin”) as it can be pensive (“The Guitar”). Coincidentally, Young Widows are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Old Wounds .
Belgian industrial, post-rock collective THOT have released their fourth full-length album, ‘Delta’, through Berlin’s Pelagic Records.
A band existing in constant flux, THOT seem to thrive in the tumult of modern life and ‘Delta’, their first long form release since 2017’s breathtaking ‘FLEUVE’, is an even more ambitious musical melting pot of the people, places, spaces and times that have helped define the band to date.
Boundary-breaking by nature, THOT have been releasing a series of narratively interlinked videos alongside the singles from the record that feature some of the faces and places that helped bring ‘Delta’ into being, alongside characters and tales that have emerged from the creative process itself. Each video references elements of the others, but in defiance of the linear trajectory of time and the physical restrictions of place because THOT want their audience to define the story for themselves, to become part of it.
In some ways, ‘Delta’ already is everyone’s story; a powerful, post-rock document of hope and perseverance against all odds, a narrative that has been shaped by so many people around the world.
ShoeShine is a Belgium indie rock band based in Brussels, that formed in late 2013.The band consists of Stef (vox/guit) Effex (drums) and Fran (keys) / Leslie (sound)
