Found in the Inbox: True Widow Slow Everything Down on “F.W.T.S: L.T.M”

True Widow makes music that the Rive Video Promotion campaign describes as calling to mind “foggy dawns and parched fields.” The Dallas trio formed in November 2007, released a self-titled debut a year later and caught the ears of the underground immediately.

Heavy, patient, rounded

At its core, the campaign says, True Widow’s music is built on the driving, guitar-dense side of shoegaze and stoner rock and the heavy, low-moving pull of ambient music. The band’s alternating male and female vocals blur the line further between stoner rock’s heft, shoegaze’s drone and the twang of blues and indie rock.

From Circumambulation to Avvolgere

The 2011 album As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth solidified the band’s direction. 2013’s Circumambulation, the trio’s first release on Relapse Records, drew praise from Pitchfork, NPR, Decibel and Metal Injection and led to tours across the US, Russia and Europe, including Roadburn, Fun Fun Fun Fest and Psycho California. “F.W.T.S: L.T.M” comes from the follow-up, Avvolgere, which the campaign calls the band “sounding more infectious and consummate than ever before.”

Why it was in the inbox

Few heavy bands are this comfortable leaving space. “F.W.T.S: L.T.M” lets the distortion and the melody take their time.

Watch the official video

Release details from Rive Video Promotion’s campaign for “F.W.T.S: L.T.M.” This feature updates Exposed Vocals’ original October 2016 post.