Gothic Theatre
Themes
THEMES creates a lush sound scape of proto folk rock mixing thick Baritone guitars, heavy piano driven arrangements, and fiercely pensive rhythms, while male and female vocals intertwine, weaving colorful blankets of stories filled with an ageless haunted insight, that somehow, seems urgently necessary in today’s world. Drawing comparisons to such greats as Nick Cave, M. Gira, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, and Neil Young. McIntosh and Crawford’s Latest album “War Over The Great Plains” is over an hour of such intensly vivid music that one might feel they are listening to a film score. When it ends, one is left wanting to know more about the mysterious people who make THEMES music.
What began Santa Rosa, CA, in the winter of 2006, as the collaboration between Jacy McIntosh (ex-end transmission, askeleton, ela) and Kelsey Crawford (ex Vox Vermillion). Returned to Minneapolis, with a developed sound, to record their first full length “War Over The Great Plains”. As a whole, the album seems to be a sort protest piece, at times dealing with the displacement of Midwestern native and folk cultures in an age of modernity and capitalistic expansion. While in between, there lies a certain unreachable beauty through the darkness, that is only spoken of briefly before it disappears again.
Now, THEMES enter new territory within their sound with multi instrumentalists, Justin Burkhard (ex-clair de lune ), Josh Syx, and Hannah Murray (of a whisper in the noise), Who round out the music of THEMES as today’s most promising modern folk rock acts that just might have the power to stop a riot from breaking out…. or could it be the power to insight one… I guess we’ll find out soon enough
