Fool, Redeemer

Genres: Folk, World, & Country, Rock Aidan Baker - guitars, flute, vocals, drum machine Leah Buckareff - bass, vocals, accordion Liz Hysen - guitars, piano, vocals, violin Brandon Miguel Valdivia - drums, percussion Nick Storring - cello, electronics, guitars, percussion Fool, Redeemer is semi-collaborative split release between Canadian acts Picastro and Nadja. Having toured together and shared a stage many times over the course of the last half-decade, the two bands thought it was time to finally release something together. Nominally a split album, with side A featuring tracks by Picastro and side B a sidelong track by Nadja, members of both groups contributed to each other’s songs. And a certain mutual influence seeped into the compositions, Picastro’s dark-folk appearing at the beginning of Nadja’s track “Venom” and Nadja’s trademark drone/dirge tendencies lending a heavier, noisier edge to Picastro’s songs.