Open Head is a 4 piece experimental ensemble from Kingston, New York. With a taste for the concrete and the spectral. their new album What is Success? sources beauty in brutalist architecture, holography and the remnants of industrialism that ornament the Hudson Valley landscape. The result is expansive, stratospheric in volume and brutally material in its punctuation and delivery. Drawing on New York no-wave and the avant-garde history of punk, noise, hip-hop and electronic music, Open Head presents a sound that is itself a landscape–immediate, colossal, ruined and essential.
Open Head is Jared Ashdown (v,g), Brandon Minervini (g,v), Jon McCarthy (b), and Dan Schwartz (d).
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Integrating elements of New York no-wave, the avant-garde history of punk, noise, hip-hop and electronic music, the tracks on What Is Success are heavy, rhythmicalLy complex and feature intricate 2-guitar interplay. The result is expansive, stratospheric in volume, and brutally material in its punctuation and delivery. Mastered by Carl Saff, the wax sounds huge and detailed.