Poorly Drawn House – “Say It with Me: I Am a Man, Not a Piano Key” b/w “Oh Horn! Sing That Memory of Disappearing”

Poorly Drawn House shouldn’t be such a secret, but somehow they remain under-discovered across the independent music scene. In 2022, the SoCal-by-way-of-Spartanburg, South Carolina trio of of Anthony Gansauer, David Gansauer, and Christian Adrian had a breakthrough with their assembly of experimental post-rock (loosely speaking…) heard on their listmaking debut EP, Home Doesn’t Have Four Walls. Influences of slowcore, indie rock, post-hardcore, and the intangible shapes of influences like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Jandek, and more recently, Caroline and recently departed noisemakers, Sprain, are apt in drawing up lines of likenesses, but their mold is their own just as well. The band’s recently released two-song single is another patiently captivating expansion of their own sonic canvas. On “Say It with Me: I Am a Man, Not a Piano Key”, the listen can be described as akin to the idea that humankind would awaken on this Earth in fully realized potential through its natural composition of Midwestern emo guitars, a tussle of brass and string arrangements, and percussive throes transfiguring the surroundings into a more intelligent architecture. “Oh Horn! Sing That Memory of Disappearing”, the trio embrace the use of space and the chaos of free jazz, interrupting them just barely by impressionistic lyrics. “Glass on the surface / In between the sky”. That you can project your imagination with limitless depth onto each leaves you with a sensation of having experience pure awesomeness.

Poorly Drawn House’s Two Songs is available now.