Tidebound
Black River and Other Bodies of Water

alternative folk / neofolk / psychedelic / folk

Black River and Other Bodies of Water” is the debut release from
psychedelic folk-act Tidebound after a number of compilation
appearances and cd-r / download releases. The EP features a
number of guests including Laura Noszczyk (Solyara, Aex, Ex-
Machinery of Joy, ex-Yellowish) and Tanja V. Jessen (Distortion
Girls, Flowers of Yes!, etc.). Tanja also recorded and mixed the songs and has added a slightly more polished feel to the otherwise homespun feel and intentionally DIY quality of the songs.

Unlike any other of Müller’s projects, Tidebound has its roots in folk music, but the inspirations that paved the way for his other projects still shine through. These are songs of lost love and hope, distressful desolation, yearning for freedom and the acceptance of solitude; themes not uncommon to the folk genre, The sometimes hazy vocals and the underlying psychedelic instrumentation give Tidebound a sound of its own, but with clear links to ancestors like Townes van Zandt, Mount Eerie, Marissa Nadler Songs: Ohia and even Leonard Cohen. The six songs on the EP range from the momento mori of first track “Under the Horned Moon”, where added Fender Rhodes and flute augument the darkly atmospheric track, over protest-song “The Enemy”, about the Danish reactions to the “refugee crisis” of 2015, to the swooning, mythological scope of “First Morning”. The EP is closed by longtime liveset closer “Black River”, a song about loss in different forms on which Tanja V. Jessen adds cathartic final bursts of noise guitar.