Music
TRUE MERIDIAN (2020)
Gazelle(s) second album was recorded in Portland, Oregon at Hallowed Halls studios with esteemed recording engineer Brandon Eggleston (Swans, Modest Mouse, Grails). Friends appearing on the album include Randall Taylor of ‘Amulets’, Eric Nyffler of ‘Bus Gas’ and Krist Novoselic from ‘Nirvana’ and ‘Giants in the Trees.’ With an ever-expanding sound, True Meridian mingles lonesome post-rock, soaring violins, frenzied doom metal, and progressive instrumentation with motifs of the American West.
THERE’S NO ONE NEW AROUND YOU (2017)
Gazelle(s) debut album came after two years of refining their sound and then adding violinist, Michelle Whitlock, to the band in 2016. They traveled to world-renowned studio, Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, CA to immerse themselves in the desert and experience how a studio with such a rich sonic history would galvanize their music. The resulting EP took the isolating feelings one experiences in the desert and imbued them with a vastness and power that came from four players ready to pour years of experience into something new and distinctive. ‘There’s No One New Around You’ shifts from moments of elegiac ambiance to menacing doom. Sorrowful violin melodies, pummeling guitar textures and pounding bass and drums interweave, creating a sonic carpet structured in a 4/4 foundation that is suddenly pulled from beneath your feet. Their intriguing time changes create a free fall into a solitary darkened void out of which emerges something beautiful and sanguine.