American Undertow

The Retro Legion

American Undertow frays the seam between present and past, love and grief, and living and dying. “Slow as smoke, a lifetime in the vein,” we learn in the first track, and the music echoes that swirl, the restless undertow of being on the American road and going nowhere, of soul kissing a ghost, a kiss that tastes like death, a death that feels

American Undertow frays the seam between present and past, love and grief, and living and dying. “Slow as smoke, a lifetime in the vein,” we learn in the first track, and the music echoes that swirl, the restless undertow of being on the American road and going nowhere, of soul kissing a ghost, a kiss that tastes like death, a death that feels like love. “We’ve been dreaming down this highway, mapped by stars and heartbreak,” Turner sings. Listening opens and names that space, out on the American margins where some of us reside. It’s erotic, blue, foggy with a brew that tastes like “a graveyard of gin” whirlpooling in its glass, never fully empty, never wholly full. —Diane Seuss

Expected release: September 12, 2023

“The music of Brian Turner’s American Undertow frays the seam between present and past, love and grief, and living and dying. “Slow as smoke, a lifetime in the vein,” we learn in the first track, and the music echoes that swirl, the restless undertow of being on the American road and going nowhere, of soul kissing a ghost, a kiss that tastes like death, a death that feels like love. “We’ve been dreaming down this highway, mapped by stars and heartbreak,” Turner sings. Listening opens and names that space, out on the American margins where some of us reside. It’s erotic, blue, foggy with a brew that tastes like “a graveyard of gin” whirlpooling in its glass, never fully empty, never wholly full. ” - Diane Seuss

Little Birds Singing

Brian Turner

Little Birds Singing begins in difficulty and hard times but, over the course of the album, shifts song by song towards sweetness, delight, and love.