Bad Suns - Mystic Truth

Bad Suns - Mystic TruthVinyl LP pressing. The third full length from L. A. band Bad Suns, Mystic Truth gets it's title from a piece of art that vocalist Christo Bowman stumbled upon while visiting London's Tate Modern on tour. Created by Bruce Nauman in 1967, the neon and glass piece spells out a possibly paradoxical statement in blue spiraled cursive: "The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths."

Frances Quinlan has built an identity for herself over the past decade as the lead songwriter and front-woman of the Philadelphia-based band Hop Along

Producer Seeb Levermann (Orden Ogan

and even Satie-like minimalism

"Brick House" helped to propel the Commodores into the spotlight as a leading R&B act

his dying wife

Her style spanned a variety of music genres including blues

With this constant push and pull propelling the album forward

From stirring strings with foreboding dark pulses to mournful movements and deeply inspiring sequences

Originally released on CD and cassette

unrehearsed but perfect in execution

"I listened to an audio book of the velveteen rabbit every night until I fell asleep

and other forms of sensory and somatic experience