Pearly Gate Music announce debut album, stream in full

Another fine addition to the ever growing Bella Union canon of Americana artists – Pearly Gate Music (aka Zach Tillman) offered up his self-titled debut album to stream in full today. It’s safe to say that Tillman, brother of Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman, is certainly not riding on the coat-tails of his big brothers band, or indeed solo career. Although Pearly Gate Music dabbles its feet in the traditional mountain folk of Fleet Foxes / J. Tillman material, it’s an altogether more lo-fi affair. Recorded at home, or on “Deadbeat Street” as Tillman likes to put it, the album is a snap shot of Tillman’s experimentation as a songwriter. From the tender, scratchy balladry of album opener “Golden Funeral” to the powerful, barn storming “Gossamer Hair” and everything in-between; Pearly Gate Music will sound familiar and new all at the same time… Well worth investigating. Listen in full below.