Drew Erin Adams

 

 

Post-Consumer is utterly thrilled to announce that musician, filmmaker, and photographer Drew Erin Adams has joined our label’s roster of artists, to release on 12″ vinyl and digitally Drew’s brand new solo record ‘With Water at the Gates.’ Drew recorded his new record at home using an inspired collection of equipment, and the record has received a wonderful mastering job by North London Bomb Factory, with the resulting product sounding ecstatic, vibrant, and transcendent. We are extremely excited about this release, and think you will love it too.

Drew lives and works in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and is from Central California, whose geography and history inform much of his work. He studied Gamelan with Lou Harrison and composition with Philip Collins of New Music Works at Cabrillo Community College, but is primarily self-taught.

In the 2000s, Drew led Zdrastvootie, a Santa Cruz avant-rock band which released three full-length albums on the Holy Mountain label. Aquarius Records described Zdrastvootie as “strange alien melodies intertwined with dense complex time signatures, angular atonal riffage, spastic start stop arrangements, gnarled Ginn-ish guitar noodling, all meshed into dreamy propulsive post-rock that occasionally splinters gloriously into hyper complex free-prog/jazz and staccato bursts of noisy improv chaos.”

Drew is a member of the Filmmakers Co-Op, and directed the feature films ‘The Cedars’ in 2013 and ‘Beat the Shift’ in 2021, both of which explore complex family dynamics and personal redemption against the backdrop of working-class struggle.

 

This is Nicholas talking about Drew and the new record.