Steve Scott

RELEASE: HSAL #67
RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2025

AVAILABILITY: DIG
ARTWORK: Courtesy of Stilyagi
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

This, our ninth compilation, is a total “family & friends” affair. We’ve seen many artists come and go since dreaming this all up back in 2009. Consider this collection of tunes as a random card you get in the mail one day from a long-forgotten friend. It is steeped in nostalgic references and mile-markers from their journey that they think will at least hold your interest and at most rekindle a connection.

Here’s a track-by-track description of the compilation:

Track 01 – Fainting Couch, “So Long”: new single from the guitar half of “Powerviolet,” who we featured on HSAL #65.
Track 02 – Lost In Space Camp, “Aquatone (Attic Session)”: Instrumental take on a track that may include vocals on a future release…
Track 03 – honeybrandy, “Closed For Learning”: new track from upcoming album, “File Under Contemplative Protest,” due out later this year.
Track 04 – Plastic Hacks, “Slow Glow”: new single from the forthcoming album, “Fabulously Melancholy,” due out Spring 2025 on Friend Club Records.
Track 05 – Young Hierophant, “From A Room Forever”: this track is an unreleased composition from the sessions for his STELLAR 2024 album “Return To The Healing Church.”
Track 06 – Sheetrock, “Herald”: new single from RVA members of Toan Team.
Track 07 – asentimentalsong, “The Calm Before The Calm”: new piece presented by Joe from TLVS. #dronelife
Track 08 – Times Tables, “Zoom Meeting”: new single from Roanoke’s faux-midwestern emo sons. EP drops later this month.
Track 09 – TLVS, “Honey From Every Wind”: only track from last year’s split with Powerviolet that’s never been played live.
Track 10 – Steve Scott, “On A Personal Note (Stilyagi Drone Mix)”: Per Steve, this is a rough sketch of something being worked on.

RELEASE: HSAL #63
RELEASE DATE: November 3, 2023

AVAILABILITY: CD / DIG
ARTWORK: courtesy of Stilyagi
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: HSAL bandcamp

FFO: Eric Lunde, Allen Ginsberg, Gil Scott-Heron

The last time we were able to deliver a Steve Scott album, it was a collection of stories and feelings crafted over a decade’s (or more) worth of time. Perhaps it was the global pandemic’s penchant for driving focus, or maybe it was self-directed study of various religious texts, but something stirred our favorite British expat toward a cycle based on a 1926 booklet by Lilias Trotter. “Secret” begins with a pair of set pieces that read like memories as much as they do poems. The remainder of the album works through seven movements (plus an epilogue) that mirror Trotter’s writing.

Each poem is accompanied by subtly haunted tones that reinforce the presence of something more than Scott’s words. There are extended moments beyond the words that seem to invite reflection and internalization – as if the sounds that swirl around Scott mimic the role of Virgil leading Dante through the Inferno, Purgatory, and ultimately, Paradise.

Some albums resonate because the vibe they create invites an immediate repeated listen – the party doesn’t have to stop. “The Way Of The Sevenfold Secret” resonance is paradoxical in that the listener may find the silence replacing the final track to be the perfect headspace to make sense of the meditation through which they were just ushered.

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