A Grave With No Name / Mountain Debris

Lefse

A GRAVE WITH NO NAME’s brittle yet fluid vision of music combines ethnic nostalgia, avant-garde interpretations of folk and sheer abstraction in a style which uniquely situates them in the current music scene. As evidenced by the tracks on Mountain Debris, their music slips easily through interpretation—too eccentric to be deemed as pop, too strange to be pigeonholed as rock, too odd and too beautiful all round, really—it instead has more in common with the true American mavericks of yore. The windswept opener "And We Parted Ways At Mt. Jade" sounds like Mark Linkous singing into a canyon for instance, while "Ghosts & Stones" calls to mind Daniel Johnston at his playfully melodic best. The second release on Lefse (Neon Indian).

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