Earwig is a high energy, stripped down, underground-rock trio from Columbus, Ohio. They deftly straddle the line between reckless rock and roll mayhem and deliberate organized song crafting. Gibson Under Mountain is Earwig’s 4th studio album on micro-indie LFM Records.
About the new album:
All of the songs on Gibson Under Mountain come from dreams. The album title came in a dream too. In the dream, I’m sitting in the center of a huge movie theater all alone. It’s an older, well kept theater with an ornate balcony, very much like Cinema East. The screen is monstrously tall and wide with velvet curtains hanging on either side. The silence is broken by the familiar sounds of the film starting it’s roll through the projector as the house lights go dark. The film is running, but the screen is blank, no images. As I sit patiently, a white light glows through the movie screen, filling it with large block letters. They read “Name your album GIBSON UNDER MOUNTAIN.” Simple and direct, with no sound or other images, the letters hang on the screen. After a time they flicker and dissolve. I can hear the sounds of the film rattling into the take up reel as the screen goes blank. Not long after this, I started dream-writing most of the songs that would become the new Earwig album.
Without having listened, a big "+" for the Bandcamp site itself, which allows you to choose high quality lossless audio formats to download if you want (like ALAC and FLAC) rather than the rubbish low quality MP3's of most other download sites.