Posted2/13/2021 7:15 AM As we continue through the annual dead zone of winter show-wise (and, oh yeah ... pandemic), we're taking some time to highlight (brag about) more brand new releases you should check out from area artists. Bellow & the Whale's 'Wild Dogs Howling'
Bianca Goyette and Julia Lee Norris of The Bellow & the Whale plotted an escape from Chicago as the pandemic started to lock down the city. Working remotely from New Mexico for the majority of the last year, they found inspiration in nature to finish work on the band's new EP, "Wild Dogs Howling." "The stress levels were inching up. I can just be in my room by myself puttering around. So the pandemic really brings out kind of the worst in me, because I'm just like I could do this forever," said Norris. "But my partner, he was losing his mind. And actually our partners were working together, so it makes sense if we all kind of stick together and form a quarantine, since we work together and our partners work together. Just find a place where we can all be and be safe. And try to be as productive as possible while still preserving a little bit of a social element to our lives."