Shane Butler – “Devotee”

A familiar name from RSTB’s past brings news of a solo stint today, springing off his psychedelic past and towards something serenely sublime. Shane Butler’s more familiar around here attached to bands like Olden Yolk or Quilt, but he’s pared down from the past and into a more meditative mode on the upcoming Heavy Debt. “Devotee” leans into folk and singer-songwriter forms more than the psych of his past projects, but there’s still a sepia-tinged sun filtering through the prism of his production on the new single. The strums give way to a patter of percussion and faint brush of effected woodwinds (played by Isaiah Barr of experimental jazz troupe Onyx Collective). The track opens the new album, Heavy Debt, out December 4th from Shane’s own label, Peal Music.

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