Happy Place - Tendrils
Happy Place - Tendrils
Happy Place is a NYC-based band of two singers, two guitarists, and two drummers, performing music composed by bandleader and drummer Will Mason.
Tendrils is the follow-up to their debut album Northfield, which was praised by Bandcamp Daily as “jittery, manic, and restless,” and by the New York Times for “succeed[ing] at fusing experimental rock and chamber music.”
Tendrils expands on themes from the first album: it is a tense and disquieting sound world marked by microtonally retuned guitars; skittering, irregular meters; and crystalline vocal lines.
The band weaves a strange, surreal fabric, and the performances are virtuosic without feeling sanitized. The music is suffused with nervousness and panic. It is a reflection of an era defined by anxiety, instability, despair; and of efforts to excavate fragile moments of beauty from the muck.
The album was recorded at Degraw Sound and Tiny Panther Recording in Brooklyn New York, and mixed by Seth Manchester (Battles, Lingua Ignota, The Body) at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket Rhode Island. It was mastered by Carl Saff.
TRACKLISTING
Illuminations
Tarnish
Tendrils
Having, Climbing
Grain
Invocations pt 1
Invocations pt 2
Rapture pt 1
Rapture pt 2
CREDITS
Will Mason - Drums, electronics, compositions
Kate Gentile - Drums
Elaine Lachica - Vocals
Charlotte Mundy - Vocals
Andrew Smiley - Guitar
Dan Lippel - Guitar
Recorded at: Degraw Sound, Brooklyn NY, March 2020; and Tiny Panther Studios, Brooklyn NY, April 2020
Engineered by: Ben Rice; Charles Mueller (tracks 2, 5, 6)
Produced by: Will Mason
Mixed by: Seth Manchester, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket RI, May 2020
Mastered by: Carl Saff
Album art by: Erin Lobb Mason