Holcombe Waller

Into the Dark Unknown is an apparition. A practiced conjurer, Holcombe Waller hosts a séance — palm to palm around the campsite fire to invoke the specters that flicker across the dried wood of the past. He incants the rising embers back up to the stars overhead like the constellate remains of so many defeated Hellenic hopes. At once melancholic and ecstatic, Into the Dark Unknown is experientially transportive, an Orphean journey through an everyday darkness. The album reflects six years of itinerant wanderings under the Pacific Northwest’s skies; the slow silvering of feathers and beards, and an animalistic intuition of where to find fresh shoots poking up through the melting snow. Lay some lavender across the dashboard, slide a water-smoothed stone into a pocket and set off with your best traveler’s sweater.

“For melodic sweep, the prize goes to Holcombe Waller, whose self-released ‘Extravagant Gesture’ is a small pop epic.” – Ann Powers

“He’s got the crazy-beautiful, four-octave voice of an androgynous seraph. Waller renders songs of romantic holocaust with a nakedness that can’t be taught.” – Kate Sullivan, SPIN Magazine

“Holcombe Waller will be among the nominees for a MacArthur Fellowship pretty soon. What else can you say about someone who’s obviously — and trust us, we wouldn’t use this dreaded word unless we had to — a genius?” – San Francisco Weekly

RIYL: Timber Timber, Iron & Wine, Preak Faeans
TRY: #2, 5, 8, 10, 12

Full Album Available Here:
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