My grief found its way into the record, sonically and emotionally, but not topically.” I wanted to embrace the things I love and the weird things that'll come to us in life. “I saw the thin veil between life and death and I realized there's nothing to be afraid of anymore. “These songs aren't about my dad dying but there’s been such a shift in my own life that my own writing took on a certain fearlessness,” says Gorman. While his grief was devastating and palpable, it also gave him clarity and newfound motivation. We definitely weren’t timid in the studio.”Īs their writing started, Gorman’s father died after a years-long battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA). “Without that crutch, we could be more adventurous and take more risks. “On our first record, we were very live-focused and wanted to make sure whatever we were writing was translated in person,” says Gorman. There are rich keyboard and programmed percussion textures now populating their songs, as well as soaringly anthemic choruses, and hefty doses of fuzz. It’s their most fully-realized and ambitious LP yet, one that’s full of immediate songs that update and revolutionize the band’s approach to making music. Fiercely egalitarian and independent, the two not only split up songwriting duties and arrangement ideas, they even built bike-powered stages: bringing the fans into the live experience and envisioning a greener future for shows.īut with their latest album Sunburned, out January 27 via Thirty Tigers, Gorman and Cochran have turned their attention inward to their songwriting and studio craft. Since the band’s 2015 inception, they’ve intently focused on their unorthodox live show with Cochran standing behind his kit and Gorman playing synth bass with his foot as he sings and strums his guitar. Though just a duo, the Harrisonburg, Virginia-based singer-guitarist Jeff Gorman along with Nashville, Tennessee-based drummer Jake Cochran make surprisingly pummeling and thoughtful alternative rock. Illiterate Light thrives on subverting expectations. Worlds Apart Ĭuts For Luck And Scars For Freedom Īlpha Zulu The Day The Country Died įrom The Cradle To The Grave I Don’t Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlen Howard Red Moon In Venus įoreground Music Įnemy of the World: Re-Recorded Bob Marley - Tuff Gong Jamaica Pressings.RICHMOND FOLK FESTIVAL & 2ND ST FESTIVAL.Kendrick Scott / Reuben Rogers / Walter Smith III.

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