Desert Liminal

is a three-piece experimental rock band from Chicago, IL featuring Sarah Quillin on Synthesizer and vocals, Rob Logan on drums and percussion and Mallory Linehan on violin. The subverted power trio create brooding indie rock with an astute ear for creating warm, engaging art-pop that entwines Quillin’s eliding delivery around smart hooks and introspective melodies and Logan’s deft polyrhythms and Linehan’s reverb-drenched strings. Their LP Glass Fate has received high praise from outlets such as Various Small Flames, Chicago Reader, The Deli and more.

A first listen of Glass Fate reveals a band with an astute ear for creating warm, engaging art-pop that entwines Quillin’s eliding delivery around smart hooks and introspective, bordering on melancholy, melodies. The further these songs move from the source they begin slipping into headier terrain creating neck-craning audio fields of droning violins and looped voice that recall Tony Conrad at his most accessible and Haley Fohr’s experimentations with voice and breath. These sounds cohabitate in the liminal space where meaning and reference slowly fade into Jungian archetype and back again through the trio’s strong grasp on solid, reality-affirming songwriting.