Nowhere Flower Heat Dome

"Portland, OR musician and visual artist Lila Jarzombek has been in a groove over the past year. In 2024 she contributed searing guitar leads to The Spatulas' first couple of releases, including their exceptional LP Beehive Mind (Post Present Medium), and she also cooked up the first Nowhere Flower release of her potent solo recordings, Ruts the Place (Radical Documents). On Heat Dome, her urgent new LP for Digital Regress, she embarks on a further excursion into her third ear across 14 transporting tracks.

Throughout Heat Dome, Lila leads us around a world of her own design, coaxing out rhythmic grooves and sweet melodies along the way. She employs a diverse patchwork of sounds while leaving space for an airy lightness. Bright and crisp guitar chords and fuzzy leads, swirling phased out synthesizer, fiddle, drum machines, keyboards, and melodica weave in between and around her unearthly and spellbinding vocals. She channels these sounds through slow-burning rockers like Heat Dome and What THE Creek Said and melancholic psych-folk ballads Torching IT ALL and Ground Cloud. Harmonica is a cosmic bridge to side B, a windy portal that transports you to another realm.

This album would be great company to 90s/00s “new weird” New England groups like Tower Recordings or Magik Markers with their wide-ranging interpretations of psych. And it embodies the spirit of punk like Japanese underground artists Onna or Michio Kadotani, or Columbus home-recording geniuses Jim Shepard or Tommy Jay. But like those singular artists, this music is authentic and real, so it mostly sounds like itself. Nowhere Flower songs are pages torn right out of Lila’s vivid and dreamy sketchbook." --Kryssi Battalene

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