Cars and Trains

Cars and Trains is an electronic folk outfit out of Portland, Oregon. If you don't know them or label Fake Four, Inc, it's time to order up an espresso because YOU BEEN FUCKING A SLEEP! 

Cars and Trains conductor/chauffeur, Tom Filepp, has gifted us the first track ("Iris") off his new project, Dust, and it is immaculate. I'd eat off its toilet seat. I'd inject myself with it and lay in the park and forget there even was a world I was escaping. Dust is that painting hanging in a gallery that you stare at and stare at and despite your sobriety, it talks to you. Not in words, but in waves of information and rhythm and layers of sound. It seems melancholy. Seen from another vantage point from across the room, its whimsy dances from the canvas. At times towering, other times seeming to cower, Dust is less an album and more an experimental soundtrack hanging on the wall of your head. 

With his arrangements of "strings, piano, viol de gamba and bass clarinet," William Ryan Fritch, of Lost Tribe Sound and The Sole & The Skyrider Band, provides some added gravitas. 

Dust is out October 16th, self-released and available via an extremely limited run of beautiful cassettes with offset printed packaging, and digital.

Go be a pal and contribute to the birth of this bouncing baby here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-instrumental-cars-trains-album-dust/x/11554311#/story