Devon Church – Strange Strangers – Teal Vinyl LP Released 07/04/23

Description

Devon Church is a singer-songwriter hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba and based in New York City. He was, for many years, a multiinstrumentalist, co-writer and producer of the dreampop duo Exitmusic, whose album, Passage (Secretly Canadian), Pitchfork described as insurgent, cinematic, and sometimes brilliant. Having gigged throughout the US in 2019 (opening for the likes of Orville Peck, Adam Green, Kirin J Callinan and Black Marble) Church set to work recording his latest offering, Strange Strangers, while seeking refuge from the global pandemic in a barn in rural Pennsylvania. Strange Strangers borrows its title from the eco-philosopher Timothy Morton: The strangeness of strange strangers is itself strange, meaning the more we know about an entity the stranger it becomes. For fans of Mark Lanegan, Tom Waits, Crooked Fingers, The National, Lee Hazlewood, Atlas Sound, Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, Chad VanGaalen.