The Low Anthem

THE REDUCED Anthem’s unique make of Americana makes room for gospel, folk, and blues, a blend that began taking shape within their hometown of Providence, RI. Ben Knox Miller and Jeff Prystowsky — both college students at Brown College or university, aswell as late-night DJs in the school’s radio train station — formed the reduced Anthem in 2006, sketching upon their history as traditional composers to greatly help mildew the group’s eclectic music. Jocie Adams became a member of one year afterwards, as well as the group started widening its arsenal of equipment accordingly, utilizing from Globe Battle I pump organs to crotales along the way. After producing its unbiased debut with 2007’s The actual Crow Brings, the music group rang in 2008 by briefly relocating to Stop Isle — a remote control location 12 mls from the Rhode Isle coastline — to record an record with manufacturer Jesse Lauter. The stark, serene environment became befitting the music, that your band originally self-released beneath the name Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. As their hype continued to construct, the reduced Anthem agreed upon a agreement with non-esuch Recordings and reissued Oh My God in ’09 2009, supporting the discharge using a string of shows at summer celebrations. Multi-instrumentalist Mat Davidson was put into the lineup afterwards that year, signing up for the reduced Anthem’s ranks a month before they going to Central Falls, Rhode Isle, to record another album. Establishing a makeshift studio room inside an left behind pasta sauce manufacturer, the group documented Wise Flesh over an interval of 90 days, making good usage of the building’s cavernous, resonant areas. The album premiered in Feb 2011 via Bella Union. The next year noticed the band supply the soundtrack for the American film Arcadia, and in 2013 they decamped, in accurate Low Anthem style, to an left behind opera house to begin with focus on their very much expected follow-up to Wise Flesh. The ensuing Eyeland, an ambitious fever fantasy, abstract narrative-driven conceptual piece, premiered by Washington Square Music in 2016.