A Grave With No Name Feathers Wet, Under the Moon

A Grave With No Name, the recording project of London’s Alexander Shields, is extremely pleased to announce his latest LP Feathers Wet, Under The Moon. The follow up to 2013’s Whirlpool, which happened to also be Shields’ first foray into a recording studio, eschewing the bedroom recordings of his previous releases, Feathers Wet, Under The Moon sees him return to a studio, this time trading the foggy confines of London for the rolling hills of Nashville, TN. The approach to recording on Feathers Wet, Under The Moon was an entirely new method of recording for Shields. In the past, he had been used to writing every note of each song, and then would perform and record everything himself, or carefully instruct the players how he wanted it to sound. For this record, he presented the bare bones of a song to the group, then MARK would hit the record button, and they would just play, often creating the arrangements on the fly. The resulting record however is an exercise in precision restraint that belies its creation. With slowly unfolding melodies, atypical song structures, and a sense of meandering melancholy, Feathers Wet, Under The Moon takes us on a personal journey that somehow feels universal.