Laura Pleasants - Returns With New Band, Stream EP
While sludge masters Kylesa are sadly on hiatus, guitarist and vocalist Laura Pleasants is focusing on a new project called The Discussion. As of now, you can hear the group's self-released five-song EP via Bandcamp below. The band will be touring across Europe this fall. Discover the new band described as "post-punk, goth, alternative rock, psychedelic" and see if you like it.
300 CDs will be pressed for the European tour. All are hand numbered on the back cover.
In 2015, Kylesa decided to go on hiatus. Pleasants returned to her home in the Hostess City of Savannah, Georgia to work on other projects and interests. During this time she began to write new music recording guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals consciously deciding to step away from the metal leanings of Kylesa.
After a year of composing and recording demos of new music she hooked up with local drummer and musician, Richard Adams of Dallas, Texas. Adams came to Savannah to attend SCAD where he studied sound. He received his BFA in 2015 and his MFA in sound design in June of this year. Pleasants saw him perform with a short lived Savannah outfit named Saint Corsair where she noted his solid drum style with Keith Moon-like fills. She immediately approached him about the possibility of starting something on the local level. The two began playing together off and on and quickly developed a friendship both professional and personal.
The two decided to form a band, record demos over the summer, and recruit a bass player for their tour of Europe in the Fall of 2017. Pleasants called on Derek Lynch, a local guitar player and NASA engineer, to play bass in the project. Born in Savannah, Lynch played guitar in many bands, most notably A Girl, A Gun, A Ghost (early 2000s Ferrat Records) and more recently Crazy Bag Lady who were signed to Kylesa's record label Retro Futurist.
300 CDs will be pressed for the European tour. All are hand numbered on the back cover.
In 2015, Kylesa decided to go on hiatus. Pleasants returned to her home in the Hostess City of Savannah, Georgia to work on other projects and interests. During this time she began to write new music recording guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals consciously deciding to step away from the metal leanings of Kylesa.
After a year of composing and recording demos of new music she hooked up with local drummer and musician, Richard Adams of Dallas, Texas. Adams came to Savannah to attend SCAD where he studied sound. He received his BFA in 2015 and his MFA in sound design in June of this year. Pleasants saw him perform with a short lived Savannah outfit named Saint Corsair where she noted his solid drum style with Keith Moon-like fills. She immediately approached him about the possibility of starting something on the local level. The two began playing together off and on and quickly developed a friendship both professional and personal.
The two decided to form a band, record demos over the summer, and recruit a bass player for their tour of Europe in the Fall of 2017. Pleasants called on Derek Lynch, a local guitar player and NASA engineer, to play bass in the project. Born in Savannah, Lynch played guitar in many bands, most notably A Girl, A Gun, A Ghost (early 2000s Ferrat Records) and more recently Crazy Bag Lady who were signed to Kylesa's record label Retro Futurist.
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