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Self-Evident can’t be easily categorized. Sure, the Minneapolis trio’s music includes aspects of punk, indie rock, and post-rock, but the sum of their parts is something more interesting and uncommon. While the band’s career spans two decades, it’s this combination of influences that has gotten them noticed of late.

The Sun-Less Trio (often a quartet or duo) is a group out of Omaha that lacks hard definition. Their dark jazz influenced rhythms are often as cold and moody as the films they project behind them. At times straight up eighties. Be prepared for the occasional triangulation a la Barrett-Crazy Horse-R.S. Howard guitar frenzy. Yet at times soft as a pillow. One comparison that crops up duals as an art form; Karate. Recording Styles and Techniques. These sessions were the result of recording live to tape, 8-tracks in particular. A fold-down would generally take place. This is where you record 5-6 tracks of instrumentation live then mix, obtain another 6 tracks of recording. The additional tracks would often contain vastly different instruments remixed along side the initial mix. Not too different from say a late ’60s session squeezing 18-20 instruments onto 8 tracks of tape.