aaamusic | On 07, Mar 2011

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter follow up 2007’s critically acclaimed ‘Like Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul’ with ‘Marble Son’, their fourth release from Fargo Records. ‘Marble Son’ will hit the stores on the 2nd May, two weeks after the band arrive in the UK for a string of live dates including a show at Monto Water Rats in London on 21st April.

Sykes and Phil Wandscher (co-founder of Whiskeytown with Ryan Adams) took on full production duties for ‘Marble Son’; recorded entirely in and around their hometown of Seattle. ‘Marble Son’ exemplifies a band at their creative pinnacle—heavier and more complex than previous records; the music resonates among the parallel worlds of the avant-garde and the timeless.

The record is an extension of their previous work, influenced in part by an association with the heavy doom and art-metal movement centred around Los Angeles label Southern Lord and two of their bands Sunn O))) and Boris. This “unlikely” musical friendship was immortalised with Skyes and Wandscher appearing on the 2006 Sunn O))) and Boris collaborative album ‘Altar’, culminating in a headlining performance of the album at the ATP festival in New York last summer.

UK TOUR DATES

17/04 – The Railway, Winchester http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_south&query=detail&event=436416

18/04 – The Sage, Gateshead http://www.thesagegateshead.org/

19/04 – Captain’s Rest, Glasgow http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_scotland&query=detail&event=433299

20/04 – Start The Bus, Bristol http://startthebus.tv/

21/04 – Monto Water Rats, London http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=435512

www.jessesykes.com