2220 welcomes Storefront Church, performing work from their new album Ink & Oil. Pianist Alan Wyffels and Happiness (Leah Levinson of Agriculture) open the night with solo sets.
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Lukas Frank is the songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist behind Storefront Church. Its members include a large rotating cast similar in makeup to Broken Social Scene or Black Country New Road. Contributions have ranged from Laetita Sadier, Phoebe Bridgers, Zachary Cole Smith (DIIV), George Clarke (Deafheaven), Circuit Des Yeux, Lauren Auder, Cassidy Turbin (Beck), Sam Wilkes, and a dozen more.
The album Ink & Oil maintains the lush cinematic vision of Los Angeles in his first release, but dials it up to 12 with a full live orchestra on every song, drawing connections to artists like Scott Walker, Brian Wilson, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Ennio Moricone. Ink & Oil is a record about family history, as much as it is a reckoning with mental health and spirituality. Broken narratives about ghosts of relatives pass through the record like forlorn faces pressed to car windows as they pass by. “I know a lot of the lyrics are cryptic and even a bit hifalutin, but I had to allow myself to sometimes not know exactly what I was writing about and let the meaning come later. There were mysteries for me about these songs that weren’t solved until way after recording, and sometimes not at all. Ultimately, somehow, I arrived at something that felt genuine, something still deeply personal that I came to through these songs.”
