Ashes of American Flags (live in the studio)

This album offers a rare, unvarnished look at songs that have become modern standards.

While the original studio versions of these tracks were defined by their dense layers of electronic noise and Jim O'Rourke's experimental mixing, this live-in-studio session strips away the artifice. What remains is the core of the band: six musicians in a room, playing with a level of intuition that only comes from decades of shared history. It sounds like the ghosts of the Midwest, captured on tape with a warmth that feels both welcoming and deeply lonely.