True Widow - Circumambulation

Title: True Widow - Circumambulation
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2013, Stoner Rock, Shoegaze, Dallas, Texas 11/26
Matrix #: RLPK7650231.1 (Alliance, Relapse LP)
Condition: New (LM) | Members: Dan P (N/A), Nicole E (N/A), Timothy S (N/A) | Producer: Matt Pence
Cultural Facts:

1. Two Years of Wood Art: After his indie band Slowride broke up, Dan Phillips quit music, left Texas for Massachusetts and spent two years working only on wood art. He came back to Dallas wanting something heavier and formed True Widow in November 2007 with Nicole Estill and Timothy Slim Starks.
2. They Called It Stonegaze: The trio coined its own name for its slow, heavy, dreamy sound: stonegaze. The press tended to call it doomgaze. The album title is the word for walking ritual circles around a sacred object, the way pilgrims circle a stupa.
3. Recorded in Argyle, Texas: Circumambulation was cut in November 2012 at the Echo Lab studio in Argyle, Texas, with Matt Pence, drummer of the Denton band Centro-matic, who had also recorded their previous album. Relapse Records signed them two months later, in January 2013.