SHOVELS - s/t LP Post Punk THE LIONESS is songwriter Jason

THE LIONESS is songwriter Jason Molina's fourth and most dynamic and empassioned full-length album to date

Seven Horses For Seven Kings was completed during a particularly prolific period for Richter

and housed in a handmade jacket in the Folkways tradition

rising and falling like the soundtrack to a paranoid nightmare

A diversity of instruments and arrangements subvert expectations at every turn and bring new depth to each passage with the band utilizing samples of contra bassoon and Rufai mystic rituals while doing away with guitar entirely

SHOVELS - s/t LP Post Punk THE LIONESS is songwriter JasonShovels isnt the greatest name for a band. It conveys a utilitarian image of work, a tool associated mainly with drudgery, unless it is the rare instance when one geezer bashes another geezer in the head and its Exhibit A in a murder case. Then it may conjure some genuine appeal. So it is interesting why a band on a stellar label like Homeless would arrive at such a handle. Shovels are part post punk, experimental and white noise psych, as you listen