Six months after New Jersey folk collective River City Extension released their third studio album, Deliverance, they announced their Farewell Show. Now, less than a year later, songwriter and recent Philadelphia resident Joe Michelini is proud to announce his next project, American Trappist. With influences ranging from the haunting folk of Toronto’s Timber Timbre to the melancholy cinematic songwriting of Angel Olsen, Michelini delivers a “post-mortem exhale” of loss, longing, and existential reconciliation in three parts this summer.
The first part, entitled In Satan’s Kingdom National Park, was released via Michelini’s Philadelphia-based record label Death Salon on June …