Event

THE HANDSOME FAMILY w/ DRUNKEN PRAYER

Husband and wife duo The Handsome Family will release their 10th studio album Unseen on September 16th via Virtual Label, their first release since their unexpected worldwide fame when their song Far From Any Road was picked as the True Detective Season 1 theme song. With its unique mix of country instrumentation and intriguing surrealist lyricism, the album explores the unseen stories, people, and places of the American West, where members Brett and Rennie Sparks live (Albuquerque, NM) and shines a light on the obscure and forgotten.

Unseen continues The Handsome Familys embrace of things beyond easy view: the slow dive of the sun, enormous bugs awakening in thorny yards, sirens, and coyotes that cry out to the purple sky. An epic western gothic masterpiece, Unseen draws from real life events. Gold first began when a bunch of twenty-dollar bills blew in Bretts face in a parking lot dust storm and Gentlemen is a tribute to William Crookes who built the first vacuum tube in 1875, hoping to detect spirits from alternate dimensions. Many tracks fix around the idea that light emanates from things we cant see, including behind The Red Door, in the empty hands of blackjack losers (The Silver Light), and amidst desert bones bleaching in the sun (King of Dust).

Morgan Geer, who performs solo and with band as Drunken Prayer, splits residence between Asheville, NC and Portland, OR. KCRW, LA calls Drunken Prayer, a quintessential slice of backwoods poetry. The Portland Mercury describes Geer as the bastard child of Tom Waits and Merle Haggard.