Daily Dose: Kelli Schaefer, “Mind Is a Cone”

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As part of a radio show I do in Portland, Oregon, I invited local artist Kelli Schaefer to stop by recently. She was going to play some songs from her most recent album No Identity and to bring along some records that inspired these songs. Having already marveled at her shift from the moody singer-songwriter of her first LP (Ghost of the Beast) to the electronic meditations of a follow up EP, I really shouldn’t have been surprised but tucked in the small pile of vinyl she carried into the studio was a record by Grinderman, Nick Cave’s brutalist side project.