Optical Atlas » Hilarie Sidney http://opticalatlas.com A Home for Friends of the Elephant 6 Recording Company Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:36:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 High Water Marks and Ideal Free Distribution Join to Form The Open Letters http://opticalatlas.com/2010/02/high-water-marks-and-ideal-free-distribution-join-to-form-the-open-letters/ http://opticalatlas.com/2010/02/high-water-marks-and-ideal-free-distribution-join-to-form-the-open-letters/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:07:48 +0000 Jeff Kuykendall http://opticalatlas.com/?p=2961 TheOpenLetterssquare2
Members of Lexington pop landmarks The High Water Marks and Ideal Free Distribution have joined forces to become The Open Letters. The lineup – Hilarie Sidney, Per Ole Bratset, Tony Miller, Samantha Herald Miller (both husband and wife teams) - began playing as a unit in late 2009.   (Kenny Johnson joined shortly thereafter.) Tony Miller wrote Optical Atlas in December, “We’ve been practicing for a short time but already have 6 solid tunes…and I mean solid.  Right now, even in their rough form the songs feel excitingly good. We’re going to whip out a recording of a couple and put one on our upcoming Color Wheel Records comp due out this spring. Sound-wise everything is very poppy with big guitars occasionally bordering on shoegaze.”  You can hear for yourself with the sample track below.  Personally, I love it.  (There’s another track, with Per singing, posted on their MySpace page.)

Note that neither The High Water Marks nor IFD are defunct, though for now it’s the Open Letters effort that’s pushing forward in earnest.  They’re playing live at Cosmic Charlie’s in Lexington with Fire Zuave on March 1st. 

The Open Letters – Stupid But Strong

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