The Lodestones
Columbia, California, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2015 | INDIE
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"Lovely new transmission, a heaving dose of refined rustic psychedelia and avant folk. Stunning document of chiseled and churned gutter country/ acid acoustic transcendentalism." - Lighten Up Sounds
"One that tells of a series of fascinating alternate histories. Deep ley lines intersect on the paths of myth, religion and the cosmos" - [sic] MAGAZINE
Discography
2016: "Reality Motel"
2018: "Burn Country"
2021: "Exile on Earth"
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Bio
The Lodestones consist of an ever expanding collection of songs by singer/songwriter Jeffrey Rocketmild Jefferson, which are performed by core members JRJ and Dena Goldsmith Stanley, as well as occasional musical accomplices from a revolving cast. Far from being a genre re-enactment, the Lodestones are just what they are. From performance art to folk, rock, poetic song verse, to even noise and country blues, The Lodestones sail freely across sonic song-space, continually inhabiting unpredictable song-vision and performance permutation.
Their latest album, "Exile on Earth," finds them as a full band, in a laid back, sur-rural, almost stoner country slow ride mode, with breezes of drifting pedal steel and rip-tides of Fender Rhodes, propelled by inspired lyrical labyrinths alternating between melancholic mysticism and subtly sarcastic riddle-jokes. There's a dusty, hallucinogenic jukebox in a nowhere cafe bar, where this record plays in a dream. "On the Beach" vibes but dark and strange.
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