Wickerbird

BIO

Wickerbird is the atmospheric dream-folk project of Blake Cowan, started in the wild foothills of Mt. Rainier. It began as a means of relating the understanding he found wandering the woods, told in distilled daydreams and wrought within the distant strands of tranquil, wistful guitars and cavernous, haunting harmonies.

His prior work includes The Crow Mother (2012), The Westering (2013) and The Leaf Maker (2015) — collections of music that are steeped in allegories of disillusionment and transition, casting personal insights under layers of natural metaphor and mythical imagery. 

Where this past work concerned itself with forest-bound introspection, examining the forces of change in their capacity for growth, Wickerbird’s upcoming full-length record The Sea Weaver shifts its perspective outwards to the horizon, reckoning instead with the destructive aspects of change. 

While his vantage remains lodged in those same diminishing natural spaces, The Sea Weaver instead explores his relation to the rapidly unraveling human context that envelops him and in doing so, contends with a haunted acceptance of being bound to its fate. It is a collection of threadbare elegies for the end, as overheard through the walls of a crumbling house. 

With gauzy, liminal atmospheres, stark finger-picked melodies, reverberant choirs, and mythologized natural imagery, Wickerbird makes an accounting of what emotions remain – when the anger and fear of a stolen future have long burnt off.”

PRESS QUOTES

“The Sea Weaver by Wickerbird is a pensive, deeply spiritual folk record that will stay with you long after its final notes have rung out; haunting but mesmerizingly beautiful.” – Everything Is Noise

“[One of] the 50 best songs of 2012 — Every fan of Bon Iver should listen to Wickerbird’s “The Fold.” The powerful first song from The Crow Mother the track lives in that beautiful space between intimacy and distance. It’s a ghostly, organic piece of music that swells with an almost spiritual sincerity.” – Pigeons & Planes

“[Wickerbird] is ultimately like watching a foreign film with no subtitles—deeply moving, but without your fully understanding why.” – FLOOD Magazine

“…his vocals have a Gregorian density…the harmonies recall a haunted bedroom version of fellow West Coast folkers Typhoon.” – Consequence of Sound

“Like hazy outlines suddenly becoming clear through the fog, a beautiful moment of departure …the most perfectly subdued soundtrack to the quiet passing of a day” – Gold Flake Paint

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MUSIC

OUT NOW: Wickerbird’s long-awaited new album, The Sea Weaver via Lost Tribe Sound: https://wickerbird.fanlink.to/theseaweaver

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PHOTOS