House of Lull.House of When is the debut solo album from Daughters frontman Alexis Marshall featuring contributions from multi-instrumentalist Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), guitarist Evan Patterson (Jaye Jayle, Young Widows) and drummer Jon Syverson (Daughters).
"I've always felt like more of a performer than a writer," Alexis Marshall says when asked about the impetus behind his first solo album, House of Lull . House of When. "In the past I lacked confidence to guide the creative process, but now I just wanted to be entirely in control of something."
Marshall is best known as the frontman for Rhode Island's notorious provocateurs Daughters, whose eight-year hiatus between their posthumous self-titled album and the critically acclaimed comeback album You Won't Get What You Want found the ever-evolving band explode from down-and-out cult heroes to one of the biggest bands in the nebulous territory where abrasive noise rock fuses with high-art aspirations. Whereas most music built around dissonance and tension feels like a cautious flirtation with nihilism or an excursion of role-playing the villain, Marshall's loathsome oratory and self-flagellating performances always conveyed a sense of true emotional gravity and danger. For his debut album, he wanted to push that sense of chaos even further, by crafting an album around moments of spontaneity and sonic detritus, where a mistake could become a hook or the whip of a chain could become a beat.
"I've never been interested in perfection because I've never even felt close to being able to achieve it. I wanted this record to be a living, breathing entity, flaws and all" Marshall explains of the writing and recording process for the album. Soliciting help from his childhood compatriot Jon Syverson (Daughters), musical colleague Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), and former tour-mate Evan Patterson (Jaye Jayle, Young Widows), Marshall and the band convened at Machines with Magnets studio in Pawtucket, R.......
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