Houston in the Blind’s Limbs is a deep sigh of a record—hypnotic, meditative, serene and sublime, its dreamy mix of shoegaze, psych rock and overcast pop propelled forward by insistent, machine-precise drums. Slow and steady, like an impending cold front. Call it a Southern Sea Change.

What would become the Athens, Ga., band’s debut release started, for all intents and purposes, as a solo record from singer/guitarist Charlie Garrett. But soon after the sessions with producer Kalen Nash of New West Records band Ponderosa, Garrett assembled an impressive group of musicians to perform the album live—drummer Darren Dodd (Butch Walker, Ponderosa), keyboardist John Watkins (Dead Confederate, St. Pe) and singer/bassist Corinne Lee (Snowden). “From the first show we played together,” Garrett says, “I realized pretty quickly that this was going to be a band, and not just some dude playing acoustic guitar with a bunch of hired guns.” Continue reading Charlie Garrett →