Alexander, Jeffrey and the Heavy Lidders – New Earth Seed [BABY BLUE VINYL] – New LP

Alexander played with Jackie-O Motherfucker, and I think I can hear an extension of that band here, have never heard J-O Mofo's albums but when I was early in my Oregon years and went to shows most every night, I saw a memorable clearly improvised performance by Jackie-O Motherfucker in some warehouse with about the same number of bands as there were people there to see them (I have no memory of the other bands except some kid whacking away at his guitar and biting so deep into his microphone that I thought surely he would electrocute himself...actually maybe he did), but clearly Frisco acid rock enters into this album (something I didn't really recognize in Jackie-O Motherfucker)...other folks can likely hear more recent references, but to me it recalls the drugged out but still sort of focused music of California bands like Spirit and Hot Tuna, ones who sort of straddled the fence between psychedelic and acid rock (which maybe it's just me, but I separate those two things) maybe sort of that influence (which probably shows in the Peter Max style jacket art) mixed with what I remember of Jackie-O Motherfucker. But who cares, I just like rambling on and telling stories...just give it a listen if it sounds like it might be your thing -- winch

Produced by and featuring: Chris Forsyth 

Joined by:

Geologist (Animal Collective)
Kate Wright (Movietone)
Ryan Jewell (Ryley Walker Band, Mosses, Rose City Band)

Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers, Modern Nature)

Brent Cordero (Psychic Ills) 

Jeffrey Alexander and his associated groups reach back to that magical Terrastock era of the '90s: booking fests and shows, sharing stages, studios and vans with the (should be) most venerated and celebrated of those more pure years: Tom Rapp, Ghost (Japan), Marissa Nadler, Bridget St. John, Flying Saucer Attack, and too many more to mention. Alexander has been a member of Jackie-O Motherfucker, The Iditarod, and Black Forest/Black Sea, among others.

His recent, mainly SF-based group Dire Wolves' sail caught wind and drew his ship back into the higher waters, to the delight of heads, initiated and otherwise. 2020 scattered the DWLVS to varied lands, and Alexander's move east to Philadelphia brings us to the Heavy Lidders Times.

This multi-headed combo features stalwarts such as Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek, Bardo Pond, Bitter Wish) on drums and the unbrothers Elkhorn: Jesse Sheppard on low-end groove, and Drew Gardner, cast as Alexander's electric guitar foil.