Experimental musician Serpentwithfeet (born Josiah Wise) is many things, including a man of his word. “Life’s gotta get easier / Can’t carry a heavy heart into another year,” he vows on “A Comma” from last April’s EP Apparition. If you take the new Deacon (Secretly Canadian) at face value, he hasn’t: the album is the […]
Tag: Soil
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The gold is in the dung heap
An excerpt from The Soil Keepers: Interviews With Practitioners on the Ground Beneath Our Feet
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Serpentwithfeet makes queer, vibrating R&B that sounds like nothing else on earth
Serpentwithfeet’s recently released debut album, Soil (Secretly Canadian), is essentially one long, ecstatic warble. The R&B singer-songwriter genius also known as Josiah Wise sings with the most pronounced vibrato this side of Tracy Chapman; when he multitracks his high tenor and falsetto vocals such as on “Wrong Tree,” the result is an ocean of shimmering, […]
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A bee forum, a pig roast, a Jewish-French luncheon, and more.