Lichen Gumbo - Altered Village LPLichen Gumbo Altered Village LP Lichen Gumbo's new album Altered Village is an eight song ode to Siilinjrvi. On the record, straightforward rock is overshadowed by metallic banging, crumbles in electric mud and is suffocated in Savonian turf. The cabin fever sound world has been created in two room flat of an apartment building in Vantaa and within the unique circumstances of Stockholm Electron Music Studio. Olli Aarni, an artist working in the

crackling n hissing lo-fi ambient made with electric guitar

It has significant artistic merit

Franco's music feels more suited to a war zone than a dance floor

Vocalist and songwriter KT weaves lyrical razorblades into searing melodies

where they explain how they long to arrive “to a free port”

Upsilon Acrux “Bicycle Race”

each member bringing different influences to the fold

2008) and just five years of silence

In a world dominated by big riffs and gnarly shredding

get as much juice out of the floor-breaking riffs as they can think of

Litoral) on electric viola and Pablo Moreno (Tsunami Attention) on cello

Godspeed You