ABOUT THE ALBUM

“Into the Dark Unknown” is an apparition. A practiced conjurer, Holcombe Waller hosts a séance — palm to palm around the campsite fire to invoke the specters that flicker across the dried wood of the past. He incants the rising embers back up to the stars overhead like the constellate remains of so many defeated Hellenic hopes. At once melancholic and ecstatic, “Into the Dark Unknown” is experientially transportive, an Orphean journey through an everyday darkness. The album reflects six years of itinerant wanderings under the Pacific Northwest’s skies; the slow silvering of feathers and beards, and an animalistic intuition of where to find fresh shoots poking up through the melting snow. Lay some lavender across the dashboard, slide a water-smoothed stone into a pocket and set off with your best traveler’s sweater to join Holcombe's compelling journey "Into the Dark Unknown."

AVAILABLE NOW

CD and Digital Download available on:
Amazon.com
iTunes
CDBaby
Bandcamp.com (signed, artist-direct)

Tracks:

1. Atlas
2. Risk of Change
3. The Unicorn
4. Baby Blue
5. Hardliners VIDEO / FREE MP3
6. Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan VIDEO
7. Shallow VIDEO
8. Into the Dark Unknown
9. About Time
10. Bored of Memory VIDEO / FREE MP3
11. Down & Cried
12. I Can Feel It

Lyrics available for each track on Bandcamp.

REVIEWS:

"Waller’s brand of chamber-flavored folk has understandably garnered him more than a few comparisons to Sufjan Stevens. That being said, after enjoying Risk Of Change a couple dozen times, I can’t help but feel that Waller is packing more than a little Leonerd Cohen in his bag of tricks. Certainly Waller is blessed with a decidedly more impressive vocal range, but with its gently fingerpicked guitars and candid frozen-in-time vignettes of NYC in winter, it’s difficult to ignore that Risk Of Change shares at least some DNA with Famous Blue Raincoat. A great and heartbreaking song, perfect for heavy drinking during the holiday season."
-My Old Kentucky Blog

"Gorgeous - melancholy but fierce and resolved. It feels like the best feelings in life, the ones that make us know that we're alive for better or worse..."
-The Oregonian