Kathryn Mohr's sophomore LP Carve came out last Friday.
Recorded alone in a trailer in the Mojave Desert, the album is sparse and sweltering as the landscape that incubated it. Warped field recordings hover above a bed of thick, distorted guitars. Her voice, layered in wavering harmony, brings to mind the brusque delivery of early Cat Power and PJ Harvey. Meanwhile, her lyrics leap out with knives and barking dogs, threats invoked in repeating patterns - for instance:
Again again, the very second I leave
A knife coming up from the ground
Clinging rung to rung up this ladder chasing
A pinpoint of light from above
Kathryn Mohr's new single "Property" is out now via The Flenser in advance of her album, "Carve," out April 17th.
Kathryn Mohr and Oldest Sea are hitting the road this June for a series of East and West Coast performances. Following the release of Waiting Room, Mohr’s acclaimed debut, these intimate shows will showcase her haunting sound alongside the atmospheric music of Oldest Sea. See the full list of tour dates and venues here.
Oakland-based artist Kathryn Mohr creates deeply personal, DIY-driven music that explores the tension between violence and tenderness. Her new album, Waiting Room, was written and self-recorded over a month in a remote Icelandic fish factory, where she composed in isolation, capturing eerie field recordings from the surrounding wilderness. The result is a haunting collection of songs inspired by unsettling imagery and raw emotion.