Amps for Christ

Electronic primitivist project Amps for Christ was primarily the task of Claremont, California-based Henry Barnes, formerly of sludge metallic/hardcore legends Man May be the Bastard and severe noise offshoot Bastard Sound. An store for Barnes’ desire for polyethnic folk customs and faux-Celtic mysticism, Amps for Christ demonstrated equally distinctive because of its usage of custom-built guitars and consumer electronics, recording with several periodic collaborators, including vocalist Tara Tikkitavi, percussionist Joel Connell, and Enid Snarb (perhaps an alias for Barnes himself). You start with several cassette produces on lo-fi tape label Shrimper within the middle-’90s, Amps for Christ silently released new amounts of sound in addition to performed sporadically because the years rolled on. Produces of note through the first decade roughly of result included 1995’s debut Plains of Alluvial, 1997’s Thorny Route, 1999’s Circuits, 2000’s Electrosphere, 2001’s Oak within the Ashes, 2004’s People most importantly, and 2006’s Every Eleven Secs. By the center of the 2000s, essential figures from the burgeoning freak folk meta-movement recognized Amps for Christ as an obscure but essential early predecessor towards the broken folk sounds of this period. In 2006 Pet Collective asked Barnes and business to open a brief West Coastline tour together. This understanding from a young era would continue with Amps for Christ’s addition with an RRR Information box group of California sound performers in 2008 and a collaborative divide LP with Brooklyn communal folk-rockers Woods in 2012. Canyons Vehicles and Crows, Barnes’ initial release of new, singularly Amps for Christ materials in over seven years, made an appearance on Shrimper in 2014. In 2017, Plains of Alluvial was reissued in a restricted vinyl release.