Indian Jewelry Totaled

• Oceans
• Look Alive
• Lapis Lazuli
• Excessive Moonlight
• Sirens
• Vison
• Tono Bungay
• +++++++
• Simulation
• Diamond Things
• Never Been Better
• Parlous Siege & Chapel
• Heaven's World Destroyer
• Touching the Roof of the Sun
• Dog Days

Indian Jewelry emerged from the Houston underground noise scene in the early 2000s, and they've since had a two successful LP's on We Are Free (which has also put out records by Ponytail and Yeasayer). Bandmates Erika Thrasher and Tex Kerschen draw from the rich effluvia of their outsider lives to construct Totaled, which is, they say, "the sum of hundreds of shows on the road and hundreds of hours under headphones." They also grift from their Houston-based Prince cover band, Diamond+Pearls, for a funk element that's delicious under the grime of their shamanistic lo-fi style. This album finds the current market to have drifted away from the drone-core trend that made for such a welcoming reception of 2008's Free Gold. But if the musicians themselves are as immersed as their sound, that doesn't matter.

Abstract by Jenna Humphrey