**SAINTSENECA** Saintseneca began in the Appalachian foothills of rural Southeast Ohio. “I was a kid way out in the middle of nowhere, alone in a haunted farmhouse at night.” Little’s experiences as a teenager in this setting have remained vivid, informing their catalog that begins with a self released, self-titled EP in 2009. After relocating and reforming in Columbus, Ohio, the band earned a dedicated following, performing intimate and charged sets of string driven DIY folk. Crisscrossing the country in a car on tour brought them national attention, connecting them to Portland, OR based Mama Bird Recording Co., who released their first full-length, LAST. In 2014 the band signed with ANTI- releasing their critically acclaimed LP Dark Arc, earning high praise from Pitchfork and landing a NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Their LP Such Things and the Mallwalker EP followed with 2018’s pinnacle Pillar of Na closing their stint with ANTI-. Highwalllow & Super Moon Songs, their first for Philadelphia indie label Lame-O Records, lands as Saintseneca’s most realized release to date, a twenty-one song opus that is more adventurous than anything prior, yet primed with a pop sense that makes accessing this expansive sonic world effortless. It’s familiar on the landscape but there’s more gravity. Two moons. Strings and synth side by side with drum machine and samples. Unamericana. “I found that I circled back to the country music that I grew up listening to and always wanted to run from - but then I just wanted to hear it. The voice of George Jones - raw and razor sharp with emotion, the alchemical perfection of Hank Williams’ song writing, Dolly Parton’s crushing melodies. They seemed to effortlessly cut through the air, floating in the atmosphere like perfume even after the songs stopped. **GLADIE** Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out, the second full-length record from Philadelphia band Gladie, opens with a contemplative instrumental called “Purple Year.” Along with acoustic strumming and a late-night wall of cricket-chirps, cello and gentle horn runs set a dewy, moonlit stage before second track and single “Born Yesterday” bursts alive with drums, bass, and bright guitar chord crunch. It’s like a cold, heart-jolting morning plunge as Augusta Koch’s familiar Philly tenor starts in: “It takes me more time, I’m a little unsteady/I was born yesterday, I forgot I could be somebody.”Koch realized while writing these songs that she had become an entirely different person: a mental, spiritual, and physical renaissance had unfolded over several years that, together, constituted an entirely new reality. Everything had changed, from relationships with friends to relationships with alcohol. Being on the other side of these tectonic shifts offered the sort of clarity that you can only get by going through the darkness: You Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out. It’s optimistic, but it’s scary, too—life changes always are. Who will you be at the end of them? “Born Yesterday,” which Koch wrote about not drinking alcohol anymore, offers a critical revelation that guides the record, and which was hard-earned while experiencing the overwhelming emotional acuity that developed while living without alcohol: “The way I feel, I could fill the ocean/When the wave comes crashing in, it said I’m not a fixed thing/I’m changeable.”Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out, the second full-length record from Philadelphia band Gladie, opens with a contemplative instrumental called “Purple Year.” Along with acoustic strumming and a late-night wall of cricket-chirps, cello and gentle horn runs set a dewy, moonlit stage before second track and single “Born Yesterday” bursts alive with drums, bass, and bright guitar chord crunch. It’s like a cold, heart-jolting morning plunge as Augusta Koch’s familiar Philly tenor starts in: “It takes me more time, I’m a little unsteady/I was born yesterday, I forgot I could be somebody.”Koch realized while writing these songs that she had become an entirely different person: a mental, spiritual, and physical renaissance had unfolded over several years that, together, constituted an entirely new reality. Everything had changed, from relationships with friends to relationships with alcohol. Being on the other side of these tectonic shifts offered the sort of clarity that you can only get by going through the darkness: You Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out. It’s optimistic, but it’s scary, too—life changes always are. Who will you be at the end of them? “Born Yesterday,” which Koch wrote about not drinking alcohol anymore, offers a critical revelation that guides the record, and which was hard-earned while experiencing the overwhelming emotional acuity that developed while living without alcohol: “The way I feel, I could fill the ocean/When the wave comes crashing in, it said I’m not a fixed thing/I’m changeable.” Presented by Hi-Dive. This is an 18+ event