Broken Ladder by Young Weather

in midwinter of 2021 i sat with a couple of rack-mounted effects units (gifts from a friend) and listened to a simple synthesizer drone for a little while. this drone sent a slow spark through whatever muscles tell & help me to write new songs, and try to hand them over to folks with a modicum of thoughtfulness.

in the past year, our family has relocated, we've watched things build and crumble alongside the rest of you, and i have tried to put some of that into a language game here.

the past half-decade (or more) of young weather has been oscillating between various instrumental combinations, live performance approaches, and of course...trying to lick the stamp of a genre each time, only to have it feel somewhat insufficient to the postage required.

these songs are an attempt to not only put voice to aches and observations, but to also embrace the streams of genre and influence that inform my writing approaches both "conventional" and "experimental," inasmuch as we can make use of those terms in a helpful, and not polemic way.

several of these pieces are a handful of years old, and finally found the right character to release in full - and adapt to the themes of this form of life. most are quite recent, forming from skeletal textures wrought from a modular synth; growing atop some harebrained attempt at an odd meter pocket; taking sketches from all manner of sources and building them up, or tearing them down.

a deep thank you to my family, to my friends, to michael and aaron for their musical contributions (but moreso their friendship), to jake and bill at c & c custom drums, old blood noise endeavors, walrus audio, and to you for listening.

"i still love you, broken ladder"

Young Weather is the project of Dustin Ragland & various collaborators in both studio and live settings through the years. Wrapping ambient electronic sound with a meter-hopping acoustic rhythm section - all around allusion-heavy lyricism.

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