Lokai & David Daniell and Douglas McCombs Announce New Albums!

Thrill Jockey Records is proud to announce that Lokai's Transition and David Daniell and Douglas McCombs' Sycamore will be released on August 18th. Both albums will be issued in a limited edition on both CD and LP. Lokai is the brainchild of Stefan Nemeth (of Radian) and Florian Kmet and Transition is the follow up to their debut record 7 Million that was released on their own Mosz Records in 2005. The new release finds the duo creating a more structured and rhythmically oriented collection of tracks that have a strong sense of space and depth but remain detailed despite their expansive feel. Sycamore, on the other hand, is the first recorded collaboration of David Daniell and Douglas McCombs. Over the years Daniell has collaborated with many notable musicians, including Loren Connors, Rhys Chatham, Tim Barnes, Jeph Jerman, Thurston Moore, Greg Davis, and Jonathan Kane, as well as releasing numerous albums under his own name and with his band San Agustin on labels such as Table of the Elements and Family Vineyard. McCombs is more often seen wielding a bass guitar, whether as a member of Eleventh Dream Day, the acoustic collective Pullman, or the pioneering and inimitable Tortoise; in his role as the driving force behind Brokeback; or through his varied work with the likes of Tom Ze, Azita Youseffi, Will Oldham, Yo La Tengo, and Calexico. Sycamore is a delicate tapestry of spacious and ethereal guitar lines woven into abstract, slow-burning and multi-layered textural improvisations. The sounds blend and overlap to create richly faceted and thickly psychedelic passages, unveiling new layers of detail with each and every listen.