Album Premiere: “Piecemeal” by Believers
If you plopped Arthur Russell into early 90s Manchester among The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, you might end up with Oakland, California’s Believers. Wesley Powell, the artist behind the project, throws a myriad of influences from krautrock to house to shoegaze into a pot and boils them down into some version of pop. Languid vocals drift atop layers of plinky guitars and synth swells, all of it undergirded by heavy bass riffs and drum machinery.
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