“Sage Creek” by Ithaca, New York’s Twin Court is the kind of song that has a softness and vulnerability that one might most often associate with a slowcore or indie folk type of band. But there’s a tonal uniqueness that may come from the band’s use of gamelan, bonang and harmonium along with the guitars. The song structure is also rather avant-garde with repeated themes to hypnotic effect and layered, interlocking rhythms that one most often hears in music out of the 1970s art rock tradition like a far more mellow and minimal Magma or Yes when the latter is in its more pastoral moments. It’s a song worth taking in full because it rewards the patient listener as the song progresses from its spare beginnings to weaving in an array of sounds in miniature orchestral fashion with GK Fulton’s vocals hitting and sustaining notes that interact with the rest of the music at unorthodox but always interesting angles giving the whole song an enigmatic character that sustains your interest until the end. Astute listeners may even here resonance with “Blue Milk” by Stereolab and/or a Linda Perhacs song in their ability to stir the imagination and demand acceptance on their idiosyncratic terms. Listen to “Sage Creek” on YouTube and follow Twin Court at the links below.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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