Low Skies

Low Skies has a kind of an atmospheric, ominous beauty scarce in urban settings. Go figure: all five members were raised in wide-eyed, blue-skied rural Americana landscapes, where afternoons were passed watching David Lynch films, nights were spent at rock shows & the time between was wasted away listening to Johnny Cash & Hank Williams. Founding members Christopher Salveter & Jason Creps met on a whim in the fall of 2000, played some shows, recorded an EP, then parted ways a year later to pursue other avenues until it was apparent that anything less than playing music together wouldn't do. The pair solidified a sturdy lineup by the close of 2001 & the material born thereafter would become the landscape for The Bed, a collection of songs as tortured and tragic as it is inspiring.

I Have Been to Beautiful Places is a collection of haunting daydreams wrapped in a country-tinged atmospheric haze. Low Skies' music accuses, rages and mourns in equal measure and ushers in an onslaught of ambivalent emotions about romance, religion, salvation and eternity. With a firestorm of guitars and howling, stricken vocals, I Have Been to Beautiful Places is a tour de force and a taste of what's to come -- and it looks to be quite a dark road ahead.