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Portland Music Month: Night Herons and Sun Atoms
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Night Heron
The record is called “Instructions for Night.” And by the end of the first track on Night Heron’s debut, the listener knows who these instructions are for. They’re for those of us awake against our will: tossing in bed after a terrible fight, pacing the hallways of new parenthood, stricken with fear of unemployment or a bad test result. These instructions are for a person (or in the case of 2020, perhaps an entire population), so dislocated by circumstance they no longer make a meaningful distinction between night and day. There is only more or less light.
Sun Atoms
Peter Holmström of The Dandy Warhols and Pete International Airport produced and plays bass in this buzzing Portland, Oregon supergroup fronted by Jsun Atoms (The Upsidedown, Daydream Machine, Pete International Airport) along with other Northwest luminaries June Kang, Mars de Ponte, Los Angeles drummer Eric Rubalcava and Boise transplant Derek Spencer Longoria Gomez. Sun Atoms bends and blends song to song through luminary influences Leonard Cohen, The Cure, Moon Duo and Nick Cave in a resulting amalgamation that combines psychedelic, dark wave and post modern-pop.