Somewhere
between Europe and America floats the Lofty Pillars. Will Hendricks, Michael
Krassner, and Fred Lonberg-Holm team up to write a soulful group of melodies
with a wonderful sense of beauty and harmony. The Lofty Pillars have no quick
association to any music created in the last three decades. It is a combination
of feelings. It is a wonderful marriage of words and music that creates a product
reminiscent of a transplanted immigrant with a highly stylized craft. It is
a painting from Willem DeKooning after he began life in New York. It is a Picasso,
post Spain exodus. The Lofty Pillars create music that, like all great art,
relies on the desperate, uses broad brushstrokes of darkened decay, and ends
with something so beautiful and whole that it is almost impossible to fathom.
"If you're looking to be overwhelmed with honest and quiet sentimentality, then the Lofty Pillars are your band. Krassner's dry voice delivers delicate epics that hit home with the brute force of poignant indie songwriters such as Joe Pernice or Wil Oldham." -CMJ
Check out The Lofty Pillar's official site.
Amsterdam
2001
When We Were
Lost
2000