EPK – GUEST DIRECTORS

About Guest Directors:

A lot of reverb, but not really shoegaze. A lot of guitar hooks, but not really power pop. A lot of woozy female vocals, but not really dream pop. Guest Directors’ spooky and soulful music demonstrates a familiarity with the sonic landscape of their native Northwest, evoking images of evergreen silhouettes, dreamy breezes, and the power of seemingly perpetual precipitation.

From their first release (2016’s “These Beautiful Things”), to the pandemic era’s home-recorded 2021 EP (“Connected Heavens”), to 2023’s first full-length release (“Interference Patterns”) they have displayed a confident amalgamation of sounds generated with a nod to the pensive and melancholy over their ever-growing discography. Each recording exhibits harmonic, rhythmic, and stylistic explorations that hover around a familiar sonic center. Their kaleidoscopic instrumentation is comprised of delightfully tangled Jazzmasters and moody vocals, as well as volatile drumming and propulsive bass work. The group has mastered its musical surveillance, recognizing each bit of sonic space as an opportunity for attention, examination, and artful refinement.

Ground Control Magazine: Throughout the nine cuts which comprise Interference Patterns, Guest Directors reaches in several directions and never misses once……. After the needle lifts from the record, no one who runs front-to-back with Interference Patterns will be able to deny that the album has charmed them. True, it would be impossible to claim that the album is flawless – but those flaws are completely permissible when the peaks in performance and style are as high as the ones which appear on this album. Without question, it’ll be interesting to see what Guest Directors does on their next album – we can only hope that we don’t have to wait long to find out.

Aversion Online: … an intriguing lesson in contrasts—whether that be the two singers, jangly/bendy chords and driving rhythms, bright shimmer with occasional twang or some fuzzed-out noisiness, memorable energy and relaxed atmospheres, or tonalities that sway from slightly uplifting to slower and more somber. Good stuff.

Static Sounds Club: This is an album that screams confidence but never over confidence. That is as sure-footed in its performance as it is in production.

Turn Up The Volume: Multi-guitar-layered shoegaze nirvana.

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Bluesy, dreamy, shreddy, psychedelic – Guest Directors are looking forward eagerly to creating and sharing more music.