{"title":"Kathryn Mohr","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"waiting-room-3","title":"Waiting Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eLow-fi slowcore and ambient from the San Francisco Bay Area. For fans of \u003cstrong\u003eGrouper\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMidwife\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThe Flenser\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe music of San Jose-based artist \u003cstrong\u003eKathryn Mohr\u003c\/strong\u003e exists in a liminal space of auditory dissociation. Drawing inspiration from lost items washing up on the shore of the San Francisco Bay, Mohr’s art chases the ephemeral nature of humanity, the warping of memory, and how trauma changes one’s experience of this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer new album \u003cem\u003eWaiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e out on \u003cstrong\u003eThe Flenser\u003c\/strong\u003e was written and self-recorded over the course of a month in eastern Iceland, within the walls of a disused fish factory surrounded by remote nature. Mohr spent hours immersed in the writing and recording of this album in a windowless concrete room lit with a string of multi-coloured light bulbs (which made their way into the album art), taking breaks to wander the factory or disappear up the shoreline—field recorder in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat came out of those recording hours are songs inspired by horror as extravagant as limb amputation by a faulty elevator and lyrics as maze-like and misguided as the torturous love and fears they depict. During this period of isolation in the tiny fishing village of Stöðvarfjörður, Mohr was all too aware of a feeling of waiting, attuned to all the worm-like emotions and memories that crawl out of the ground when there is nothing and no one to distract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe spent most time in the factory, which had sat derelict for a decade, and was in the process of being repurposed into a space for artists, with many parts left untouched since the last days of fish production and other rooms made new with heat and light. This state of incompleteness, of loss of meaning, and repurposing became a mirror of her inner world, her abandoned ideas of home, love, affection, and meaning dissolved by traumatic memories of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e is a processing of nearly untouchable emotions of rebuilding the foundation for which elusive words like affection, passion and home can have a meaning weatherproof to and detangled from the direct, physical and emotional violence that permeates our experiences on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flenser","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":51197258137931,"sku":"2242826","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51197258400075,"sku":"2242836","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":51197258727755,"sku":"2242840","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"carve-wv","title":"Carve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarve\u003c\/em\u003e is the second full-length by Bay Area artist Kathryn Mohr. Written over the course of five years and recorded over several weeks in a rural singlewide in the Mojave Desert, the album centres on love experienced as a form of grief, not as an aftermath of loss, but as a condition of intimacy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMohr describes \u003cem\u003eCarve\u003c\/em\u003e as an album about how memory exists outside the body, embedded in places and landscapes. It is shaped by her first return to the American Southwest since a childhood road trip at age five, and by the experience of moving through terrain that holds emotional weight long after its origins fade. The record considers how intimacy feels after years of isolation, and what it takes to carve out a life that allows for trust, presence, and feeling rather than mere survival. The project took form after a difficult tour that ended in Joshua Tree. Mohr pointed her car into the desert and drove alone, crisscrossing the Mojave on dirt roads. Months later, she returned to record the album, working alone with an acoustic guitar, a field recorder, and limited supplies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing that period, Mohr began to allow for intimacy and connection. The time she spent recording \u003cem\u003eCarve\u003c\/em\u003e in the desert did not create isolation so much as mirror it. Working alone out of an old, western-themed jail Airbnb, the physical enclosure reflected the emotional conditions under which much of the record had been written: distance, restraint, and long stretches of stillness. In that context, love was not experienced as escape, but as something inseparable from impermanence and the awareness of loss. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flenser","offers":[{"title":"LP - Green","offer_id":56756556726603,"sku":"R9100-7547","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56756556759371,"sku":"R9100-2147","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":56756556792139,"sku":"R9100-7989","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56756556824907,"sku":"R9100-7324","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KathrynMohr_Carve.jpg?v=1773077978"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/kathryn-mohr.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}