BAEBLE SESSIONS: Hurricane Bells at The Guest Apartment

It probably started as a classic sounding story. Former Longwave front-man Steve Schiltz - isolated, alone - penning stripped down songs on an acoustic guitar for purposes, none greater than himself. Soon the story behind the music would become a bit more formal - a name dubbed Hurricane Bells, and an album's worth of woozy, atmospheric titles called Tonight is the Ghost. A few shows would thicken the plot, with the mother of all licensing deals (um, a spot on the New Moon OST), and a label solidifying the need to take it to the masses. So that's what Schiltz has been doing. In fact, he's currently touring with collaborator Ashen Keilyn in support of the album. Yet I suspect the heart of Hurricane Bells lies somewhere in the deconstructed, acoustic splendor of the duo's performance in the Guest Apartment, though we'll let you be the judge of that. - David Pitz