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KACY & CLAYTON

The music of Kacy and Clayton exists outside of time, and burgeons with beautiful contradictions. Its psychedelic and traditional, contemporary and vintage, melancholic and joyous. All at once, it showcases a slightly psych-folk sound of Linda Perhacs, Fleet Foxes, and First Aid Kit; rare country blues records and English folk tunes; and 1920s disaster songs and murder ballads. Their songs often are sugar-coated pills, tales of murderous jealousy, dilapidated graveyards, and infanticide, all delivered with Kacy Andersons sweet, lithe voice, and Clayton Linthicums hypnotic fingerpicking.

Their music has resonated far beyond Saskatchewan, earning them fans culled from their long tours across North America and the U.K. Clayton says it was a surprise to see that people in cities outside their small town connected with the music they loved. You get the young record collecting nerds like us that come out, he says, and the more obsessive older crowds that were like those younger people 45 years ago.

Clayton says their stripped-down sound is an iconoclastic thing in the age of overproduced albums. Theres something defiant about just a guitar and vocals, breaking away from the present to create a world from the past. As Clayton surmises: The most rebellious thing you can do is rebel against the rebellion.

Clayton Linthicum - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, piano, pedal steel, recorder, Marxophone
Kacy Anderson - vocals, acoustic and 12-string guitar, fiddle
Mike Silverman - drums, percussion
Shuyler Jansen - electric bass, Fender Bass VI