Another album coming October 22 from the LVL UP camp (Nick Corbo), releasing on the same day as the new Trace Mountains album. From their Bandcamp: When his primary music project, LVL UP, stopped working together in 2018, prolific multi-instrumentalist and illustrator Nick Corbo began working on a new body of music and visual art as Spirit Was. On his debut studio album Heaven’s Just a Cloud, haunting, beautiful scenes of the natural world feel just as represented in the warm, classic, wooden floors of country rock as they do in the dark, droning, shadows of doom and black metal. With new creative liberties, Corbo is allowed an opportunity to keep exploring the heavy, distorted instrumentation and experimental techniques that have shaped his music to date. His ability to focus on small details and weave them into vast networks has been evident in all of the music and visual art in his catalogue. In its density, Heaven’s Just A Cloud is threaded with memorable lyrics and recapitulating musical themes that guide the listener. Spirit Was feels at home among the technical, melodic songwriting of Harry Nilsson’s studio recordings, or the dusty, psychedelic oblivion of Earth and Wolves in the Throne Room. A departure from his previously collaborative recordings, the album features Corbo on drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards, weaving sweet, intentional melodies and vocal harmonies over a slamming, distorted rhythm section. credits releases October 22, 2021 Written, arranged, performed and produced by Nick Corbo with Z Santos (voice), Rashaad Jones (cello) & Griffin Koelbel (synthesizers) Recorded by Matt Labozza Mastered by Edsel Holden The first single is a pretty interesting combo of psych rock, slowcore, and blackgaze with a really well made video to boot:
This is being released on the same day as the Trace Mountains album, right? Great day to be a LVL UP fan hahahah
also, thought you’d all get a kick out of the custom pedal that he made me for my brother in law in Seattle. Such phenomenal work.
Where the eff did the second half of that song come from. I had to check I was still listening to the same band.
he definitely hinted at black metal fandom in lvl up. i wouldn’t be surprised if songs like five mdb on the ridge or naked in the river went this route if not for dave and mike probably not enjoying it
Good song! I saw on the track list there’s a song called “Spirit Was” is this gonna be a cover of the LVL UP version? He seems to really like that name haha