Begin Yr Singing: Vinyl LP

Label: Western Vinyl
Release Date: 30th October

This is a record for serious air guitar folk, you wait till everyone is asleep, you pop on those sweet headphones with the long chords, drop the needle, and take your noble axe and start biting your bottom lip and eyes closed. It's doom rock, it's jazz rock, it sounds like it's gonna be utter waaaaaaaaaank but it's got stoner vibes, with the hyper fret workouts and yet it's so much fun. 

Yr Knives is a Chicago instrumental quartet built around two very different guitar voices. The band came together sideways: composer Paul Karner wanted guitarists Andrew Trim and Brian Sulpizio to play disparate parts on a recording of his own, and when the two finally rehearsed together, a band fell into focus. Trim leads the groups Hanami and Retroreflector; Sulpizio is the constant behind Health and Beauty. Anchoring them are two Chicago mainstays, bassist Douglas McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day) and drummer Quin Kirchner. Two of them come up as rock and roll players, two as jazz players, and the music lives in how closely they listen across those languages.

Their debut, Begin Yr Singing, centers on two overdriven guitars merging into something neither could produce alone, over a rhythm section that can lock a groove or let it drift. The result is exploratory but grounded, "a searching music," in Trim's words, that asks questions it doesn't always answer and shifts from one performance to the next. Recorded live in a single room at Chicago's Palisade studio with Nick Broste engineering and mixed by Cooper Crain with Sulpizio, the six tracks draw on Sonny Sharrock, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Albert Ayler, Erik Satie, and Television. The band has toured supporting The Messthetics.

Tracklisting:
01 Trimnopedie 7:19
02 Stretch Bath 7:16
03 Fear&Trimbling 7:41
04 Double A (Start Yr Singing) 3:48
05 These Chords 5:55
06 White Gladys 12:55