Skin by Marriages

submitted by Stephanie Marlow

Listen to “Skin”, the first track to surface from Marriages’ debut full-length album Salome, now on Stereogum.com and via Soundcloud. The band is currently out on a co-headlining tour with label mates Helms Alee where they are playing new songs from Salome in a live setting before its release on April 7th via Sargent House. Check out the full list of tour dates below.

Upon listening to Salome, the first thing one notices is its sense of space. Like pulling open a dark window shade mid-flight, we’re abruptly presented with a crystalline brightness setting the tone from the outset, signifying an evolution from the somewhat insular buzz of 2012 debut EP, Kitsune. The second thing is that, unlike the stream-of-consciousness approach which found each track on Kitsune nebulously flowing into the next, Salome is comprised of concise songs, each one a light that flickers into existence, burns with magnificent intensity, and then expires.