Stars of the Lid are ignoring the pigeon-holes to just do their thing
DRONE, post-classical, ambient… Adam Wiltzie has heard all the descriptors for Stars of the Lid, his two- decades-plus collaboration with Brian McBride. Fashions come and go but Stars of the Lid are happy to keep doing what they do and let others worry about the details.
He recalls how when the duo first emerged from Texas in 1993, they became part of the firmament anointed by celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds known as ‘post-rock’, a loose collection of bands whose only connection was their shared unwillingness to create music in the conventional rock verse-chorus-verse idiom. Instead, they created music that was more freeform in structure and embraced other genres such as jazz, dub, and krautrock.
