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The Shenandoah Electric Company
5+ albums
folkalternative rockindie rockamerican
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The Shenandoah Electric Company has been writing their first record over the last five years. What started as an idea of making raw, heavy music began shifting into something more nuanced. Throughout the writing, Wes Young and Michael York had the idea of a band that felt fluid. Something that would ebb and flow with different collaborators and people to focus on the process of thinking and creating differently. They wrote and recorded sketches over the first few years - yet, in the middle of a session one afternoon - they lost everything. Most of the last two years were gone in an instant. Using the only remains they had left of their previous recorded output as the foundation to build something new on, they began writing a different record along with drummer David Haik. Something that felt a bit more chaotic and volatile. Something angular that felt enveloping and beautiful yet somehow still digital and cold. There was no "studio," only spaces that provided a backdrop to record whenever they could be it a hotel room, a late 1800s warehouse in which there was a vacant recording studio, or in the mountains in Virginia during a particularly bad cold snap. However, the home of the record is in the woods of Basye, Virginia where the music and vision both came to fruition in a 1970's ski resort house. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
