Nonexistent Night’s new album In the Middle of a Boiling Sea comes out on Jan. 26th via Three One G Records and is a healing vessel! This band has created songs that are beautiful and majestic plus otherworldly. This has been a crazy week for me and to be able to lose myself in songs like “One Year” is priceless. Join us as we celebrate Nonexistent Night’s In the Middle of a Boiling Sea with a full stream taking place below!
The debut album In the Middle of a Boiling Sea is strange cartography outside the steady forward flow of time. Across five tracks largely focused on the interplay of piano, bass, and drums (with cello, guitar, and vocals layered in as complementary texture), Nonexistent Night’s debut traces wild arcs and interlinks sonic spaces and legacies as disparate as San Diego, Louisville, Tijuana, Chicago, and Southeast London. The record is, in a sense, nakedly nostalgic, in the original ancient Greek sense of “a return that wounds.” After all, post-rock (a term more puzzling the further it gets in the rearview mirror) was only ever a placeholder genre for an industry that did not know what to do when punks suddenly started playing strings, piano, and vibraphones. As the seedbed of many of our current crises, the 1990s were pretty fucked, but the band finds there is still much to be mined from the moment. In the Middle of a Boiling Sea engages a 1990s art and post-rock past that never really was–one that, recontextualized, can be a new site of return.
John Rieder
