“Be careful what you hear, should you happen upon heavy meadows,” is a line that gets heard in the title track of Detroit, Michigan trio Javelins’ latest record, Heavy Meadows, and immediately one starts to think about how impossible what they’re suggesting you do is. It’s like telling someone at the top of a skyscraper, “No matter what you do, don’t look down.” The heavy meadows are full of creakings and groans, things busy living and as busy dying off, whipping and knocking against each other in the incessant wind tear…
—Sean Moeller / Illustration by Johnnie Clunie