Stars Of The Lid
Biography
Once upon a time in east Austin when giants roamed the earth, they also slept. It was told unto us that there were two lost colonists who abducted and appropriated gaseous tones into an orchestration that reminds us all that we exist in a world of strangers, dancing only six feet apart.
Originally formed in Austin, Texas on Christmas day 1992, Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride, Stars Of The Lid (one of the most apropos names in all of music) have scratched out quite a niche for themselves in the amorphous world of atmospheric classical music. From their almost-rock beginnings to the almost-classical fugues of recent albums, Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. They offer subtle, endlessly evolving stories about the dynamics of sonic texture, at the same time seeming to offer a picture of pure, unfettered consciousness. Their music are largely beatless soundscapes composed of droning, effects-treated guitars along with piano, strings, and horns; volume swells and feedback fill the gap of rhythmic instruments, providing dynamic movement within the songs. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals."
And after many a moon, 'Stars Of The Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline' will be released into the world infected with Flemish gale force sorrows, and the sounds of pacific tree frogs lost in a chorus of comforting swampy varied thrush.
At this point we all will yawn, exacerbated by solitude, announcing departures for a lid that now and forever means nothing.
