Craft Spells Announce New Album "Nausea"

Released June 10th via Captured Tracks

After a dormant period following the release of the Gallery EP in 2012, Craft Spells’ Justin Vallesteros is back with the gorgeously ambitious Nausea. It’s Craft Spells’ second proper full length LP, and first since 2010’s critically acclaimed Idle Labor.
Since last on the radar, Justin moved to San Francisco to find a niche in the Bay Area music scene. This proved difficult within the regarded garage rock scene and insular DJ night crowds currently dominating the area’s music com- munity. Here, Justin fell into a slump, creatively. With a severe bout of writer’s block he retreated to his parent’s house in Lathrop, CA. Away from the city, he put down his guitar for a full year in favour of properly training himself on piano, the instrument from which all the tracks for Nausea were written.

The demos came together in early 2014 and Vallesteros flew to Seattle to produce and record the LP, full of ideas and a new found maturity in both songwriting and recording sophistication. Nausea is a bold, beautiful and lush new sound emphasizing the songwriting abilities Vallesteros always had. An album of piano, real strings and acoustic guitar.

Nausea could easily have been a record rife with indecision and anxiety. But like the song for which the album is named, Craft Spells was able to turn the chaos and disillusionment into a work that provides ammo against that very thing, with beauty, vision and melody.

Stream Single “Breaking The Angle Against The Tide”

Pre-order link here.

Tracklisting:
1. Nausea
2. Komorebi
3. Changing Faces
4. Instrumental
5. Dwindle
6. Twirl
7. Laughing for My Life
8. First Snow
9. Breaking the Angle Against the Tide 10. If I Could
11. Still Fields (October 10, 1987)