Playback Field Recording - The Acorn

The Acorn - Misplaced

The Acorn - Cobbled From Dust

The Acorn Interview 1

When Playback editor Lavinia Jones Wright met Acorn frontman Rolf Klausener backstage before the band's show at Littlefield in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, it was impossible not to mention the weather. New York had just emerged out of a massive, stifling heat wave that might seem shocking to a band visiting from Ottawa, in rural Canada. Klausener related that, in the winter, due to some very unique geography, his hometown can get down to (some math ensued) -30 degrees Fahrenheit. That explains a lot about the wintery and beautifully bleak sound of his music.

That is not to say that The Acorn's music is at all dry or blighted, in fact quite the opposite is true. The two songs he played us, "Misplaced" and "Cobbled From Dust" from the band's brand new album No Ghost, came alive with the echoey acoustics of the venue's back hallway and the lushly implied spaces between Klauseners finger-picked guitar notes.

He talked to Playback a little afterwards about the challenges inherent in transitioning from tour to the studio, where he finds the intricate and beautiful stories in his songs (his mother's life was a plumb source) and how the band works together when they are writing and recording an album.

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The Acorn Interview 2

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