With his LP Mulberry Violence forthcoming August 17th, Boise-based artist Trevor Powers has shared two more tracks taken from the LP. Inspired by Ray Bradury’s ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’, the cuts ‘Clad In Skin’ and ‘Squelch’ juggle between cinematic off-jazz sparkles and an eerie haunt. The songs follow a series of recordings that Powers has dropped spanning the past few months. Mulberry Violence will get released via Baby Halo.

Touching on the songs, Trevor Powers said:

“”Death like a rattle in one hand, Life like candy in the other; shake one to scare you, offer one to make your mouth water.” I noticed Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes peeking out from the sci-fi end cap at a discount bookstore in rural Washington a few years back. After scanning the pages and reading that line, I bounced eight quarters on the counter like a six-year-old with mad money and got back on the highway. Driving until dark, I pulled into the first hotel that didn’t resemble a villainous sex den, received the room key from a twitchy, impressively stoned desk clerk named Gregory, and opened the door to my room only to find the bed was half the size of my body and the thermostat was stuck at frigid. But as I curled up like a homeless poodle and started reading, every wine stained page of that book put me under a spell. I was in Green Town. I saw it all. I escaped by sunrise, appeared back in room 116, ate a stale Reese’s, and crashed out on my dog bed by 7 am.

‘Clad In Skin’ and ‘Squelch’ were birthed by the belly of that book. Bradbury’s story is centered around a traveling carnival concealing nightmares within a semblance of fun – so I figured it needed a soundtrack. Over the span of a few months, I worked up an entire score for it, but these were the only two pieces that survived. One is the candy; the other.. the rattle.”