Description
Throat consists of two artists on sabbatical from their day jobs Nick Power from The Coral, and McKowski as one half of The Lost Brothers, film score composer Quantum Cowboys screen writer The Spin and touring musician Jolie Holland, Howe Gelb, M. Ward. Recorded in the period of 2021 and 2024 between Omagh, Northern Ireland and Merseyside, Throat is a journey through McKowski and Powers shared imagination.Its a sense of outsiderness that links Throats disparate parts folkhorror, VHS video nasties, poetry, the natural world, hauntology, true crime, John Laurie films, teenage acid trips, twisted road songs. Throat is a way of giving a platform to this secret world, while almost moonlighting as a runofthemill album. Soon after the title track was complete, Mark began recording and sending more music to Power, whod write words while driving around Merseyside at night.As the tracks began taking shape, a pattern emerged, and with it, certain rules. All recordings go down in the first take. Mistakes stay in. Only play whats to hand, even if its a tin pot. Its within these limitations that Throat blossomed eschewing traditional song structures for discordant instrumental breaks, passages of spoken word, the sound of footsteps on a wooden staircase.
