Siskiyou

Colin Huebert and Erik Arnesen launched Siskiyou in the closing years of the 2000s, still active at the time within the well-regarded Canadian folk-pop ensemble Great Lake Swimmers. Their Constellation-released self-titled debut from 2010 took shape during a lull in Great Lake Swimmers commitments and conjures the sweeping, frigid expanse of the Pacific Northwest that shaped its origins, preserving much of that earlier act’s widescreen reach and northern folk framework while sharpening the emphasis on shadowy, contemplative, alt-pop-inflected minimalism. Keep Away the Dead arrived next in 2011 as the duo’s second album, delivering a comparably rustic yet more polished studio rendering of their aesthetic, before Nervous surfaced in 2014 and placed the group in an unabashed chamber-pop register through its rich, introspective textures.