Narrows
Location
Seattle/London/Chula Vista
Website
Bio
Growing up doesn't mean growing soft. Though the transition into
adulthood and it's cumbersome responsibilities typically goes hand in
hand with complacency and the urge to settle into comfortable routines,
it's necessary to remember that maturity and a placated existence are
mutually exclusive behavioral patterns. Look only to the refined
musical maelstrom of Narrows for confirmation.
Spread out across both the United States and two continents,
Narrows exists despite geographical inconveniences for the sole purpose
of creating devastating noise. Though outside obligations will most
likely relegate the live Narrows experience to a truly rare event, the
shared need to exorcise their collective demons fuels the trans-global
project. Dave Verellen (Botch, Roy), Rob Moran (Unbroken, Some Girls,
Over My Dead Body), Ryan Frederiksen (These Arms Are Snakes,
Nineironspitfire), Jodie Cox (Tropics, Rohame, Bullet Union), and Sam
Stothers (Makeout Boys, Quarantine) are busy men with busy lives. The
Narrows project is not meant to define and drive their individual
lives. Rather, the band serves as a respite; a rare opportunity to
escape; a vengeful howl from the basest corner of the psyche. In those
rare moments when the five men find themselves in the same city, the
quintet seizes the opportunity to combine their disparate talents to
craft their unique brand of aural malice.
Soon, Narrows will offer up their first proper full length
album titled "New Distances". Anchored by a minimalist punk framework
and elaborated by squalls of angular guitar noise, the music is
simultaneously beguiling and dissonant. Helmed by Verellen's signature
roar, the resulting compositions owe as much to the early hardcore
pioneers as to New York and London's post-punk founders. Terminally
bleak, counter-intuitive to the standard rock paradigm, and at odds
with everyone, Narrow's debut is an angry slab of nihilistic abandon.
