Black Vatican
Oceanic Feelin'
VINYL ONLY RELEASE. Black Vatican (Chicago filmmaker Andy Roche & man-about-Baltimore Owen Gardner) return on Locust. It's the morning of the earth & here they are again with a ebullient summer mystifier of an album. Somnolent vocals a la Arthur Russell, striated droning guitar, primitive rhythm box bombast & churning, minimal synths make for a beautifully unrefined album of liminal pop song that rises, breaks & bubbles before washing out ashore like so much audible sea foam …