Old Horn Thomas was born from the idea that every good story is haunted by its own repetition. One can only return to the same place twice in abstract, never in practice. The very act of returning produces the discovery that things are not how you left them. So every good story is stalked by its own shadow, just out of frame, just out of sight, helpless to cease the eternal drift of memory. A tireless compulsion towards myth, towards true spiritual-fiction and towards fictional spirits has resulted in an assemblage of original music which interrogates familial history, rural religiosity, and a decade of road-worn travel as a touring musician. 

Coated in a ruddy patina of dirt roads, gray skies, and industrial decay, Old Horn Thomas’ forthcoming debut album The Last Jew In Central PA asks if we are always already wandering an empty world; late to the party, perhaps not invited at all? Weary pallbearers of history, transfigured in death, even now—as an ominous sword-become-plowshare harkens us to bear witness to the timeless return of the new—unfamiliar—as all returns must be. A fleeting glimpse of something on history’s horizon—a shoreline, perhaps—or maybe it was just a trick of The Light. Doomed to Faith. Doomed to Doubt. 

Spencer Mckee is a multi-instrumentalist who makes sound collages on samplers inspired by dreams and memories, from State College and formerly of Ma’am and Mag2.