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ANNA FOX ROCHINSKI (of Quilt) – ” No Better “

Posted: March 28, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Anna Fox Rochinski (of Psych indie rock band Quilt) has shared a new single titled “No Better.” It is the latest single released from her upcoming debut solo album, “Cherry”, which will be out on March 26th via Don Giovanni. 

Carlos Hernandez and Julian Fader (both of Ava Luna) produced Cherry. “Everybody’s Down.” It is the third single to be released from her upcoming album, Rochinski speaks about the concept behind the song in a press release: “‘Everybody’s Down’ is a song that’s meant to be a little abstract but is generally about feeling run down and bewildered by rampant complicity during catastrophic times. ‘Everybody’s Down’, including you and me. And yes, also, ‘down’ like bummed, if that speaks to you. And yes, also ‘down’ as in, just casually down to do something, like, down to go grab food with your homies or whatever. It’s a triple entendre. We all feel all of these things every day. It’s a lot. Literally all I can do anymore to stay sane is have a sense of humour and laugh at stuff. I am so much less randomly sentimental than I used to be, but I think it’s because I have learned what really deserves my love and attention.”

She adds: “There was a primordial version of this song that I brought in to [album producers] Carlos [Hernandez] and Julian [Fader], but in the studio, we would visit it at the end of the night after all our serious work was done and throw stuff at the wall to see what would stick. It was like a way to release tension, and we didn’t take it very seriously. We made this minimal, weird, scuzzy instrumental with bass, guitar, synth and programmed drums, and I then took this raw creation home and worked out the structure and the melody and lyrics. In the end, I fell in love with this song, much to my surprise.”

Quilt’s most recent album, Plaza, came out in 2016 on Mexican Summer. 

ANNA FOX ROCHINSKI – ” Cherry “

Posted: January 26, 2021 in MUSIC
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Excited to announce the debut solo album from Anna Fox Rochinski – titled “Cherry” – out March 26th known as the front person of psych-folk band Quilt.

Quilt’s Anna Fox Rochinski has announced her debut solo album, “Cherry”, which will be out via Don Giovanni Records. It’s a departure from the folky psych-rock sound you may associate with her. “I lost interest in chord-based guitar music and constructed this record mostly from melodies and beats and bass lines, with guitar as an accessory rather than necessary ingredient,” Anna says, citing Madonna, Can, Midnite Vultures-era Beck, Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo, and Robyn’s 1995 debut as influences here.

Anna also says Cherry contains “the most personal stuff I’ve ever written,” describing it as “basically a break up album, but one that documents a time period ranging from the last few dying months of a six-year relationship and straight into the period following, when I was truly on my own for the first time in a very long time. A break up not just with a guy, but with an entire place and an entire life.” The first single is Cherry’s title track, which is definitely new territory for Anna but you can still hear the melodic style she had in Quilt,

Rochinski began writing the record at the end of her tenure in a cottage in the Hudson Valley, and continued writing during the uncomfortable transition out of a stable life she had worked hard to achieve. “This record was written while I was shedding many things that were very precious to me, but I knew I couldn’t keep”. After a few stints on the west coast she ended up in NYC, without intending to stay long, but that is where she ultimately decided to nest, as work on Cherry began.

You can watch the somewhat surreal “Cherry” video, where Anna has the run of some sort of desert resort/retreat, and check out the album. 

QUILT – ” Plaza “

Posted: January 1, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The third album from indie/psych/folk quartet Quilt might come from old demos, but it bucks these common trends by showing that disparity can serve as a creative asset.Quilt expertly constructs solid psychadelic pop,  They get the psychedelic revival correct, using sustained cord changes, modest effects and balance themselves between psych folk and dream-pop as if they’ve got one foot rooted in the past and one in the present.When Anna Fox Rochinski and Butler throw in a key shift on opener “Passerby” that evokes a sitar-like, resonator guitar tone, it’s as if they hit the whammy bar on the song itself during playback. It’s a trick they manage several times throughout this new set, where the entire band, which also includes drummer John Andrews and new bassist Keven Lareau, will suddenly go slack before the arrangement as a whole automatically snaps back like a guitar returning to its default string tension. At these times, usually the band will be cruising along at a pleasant pace before swerving toward a jagged, seemingly out-of-place chord or element, and the overall effect is like a friend suddenly tousling your hair.

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Slightly atmospheric, with a presentation that’s flawless, as if they’ve handed out mood enhancers that sparkle the edges & fill this album with songs that are well crafted, intimate & own the space in which they exist, creating a package that’s downright flammable

QUILT – ” Cowboys in The Void “

Posted: February 1, 2016 in MUSIC
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sonic weavers Quilt before their gig at the Rural Indie Camp Festival  held on the hills behind Genova, Northern Italy. I had first seen Quilt a couple of years back at the Liverpool Psych Fest then again a few days later in a small club in Coventry, when I caught them opening a gig for Mexican Summer label-mates The Fresh and Onlys . While the headliners played a more ballsy rock and roll that I wasn’t quite in the mood for that night, I got lost in the awesome opening band’s intertwining dreamy melodies and especially the vocals of Anna Fox Rochinski  , knitting a warm musical blanket for collective souls to be tucked under. That night, there was a song in particular that struck a chord that kept resonating in my head. It was some sort of long, cosmic space jam with a beautiful riff keeping it grounded. I bought the record right after the show and soon enough found it in a more structured form as Cowboys In The Void, the second song on the album.