Blog: LocalCut

Ohioan High Country EP (Infinite Front) [FUCKED-UP AMERICANA] At the heart of Ohioan's sound is a conflict between the embrace of tradition and the refusal of it. Ohioan godhead Ryne Warner seems spiritually opposed to releasing a conventional pop album—a point to which High Country's avant-noise forays attest—but he also writes a mean chorus. His solution? To leave the sweet, catchy bits strewn like mines across a wasteland of ambient sound. And so we start High Country with the swirling tape hiss [...]