Stone Age Is Back

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Stone Age Is Back, the third solo album from singer-songwriter and poet Caleb Nichols is a fascinating and urgent addition to his growing catalog. Like a PhD dissertation in contemporary indie rock and alt-folk, the album pulls from disparate strands of Nichols’ universe to form an amalgam of queer ecology, rustic punk, existential folk, frenetic indie pop, spoken word, experimental jazz, and Neil Young-esque shredding. The new LP, which is out October 3rd on Royal Oakie Records is a meditation