Even before he teamed with
Elisa Ambrogio and Leah Quimby to form the
Magik Markers in 2001, Brooklyn’s Pete Nolan was making dreamy lo-fi music under the
Spectre Folk alias. However, his meandering home recordings didn’t really start taking shape until much later, when drummer Steve Shelley (
Sonic Youth) and guitarist Peter Meehan (the Grey Lady) signed on as Nolan’s live band. After a surplus of limited releases on tapes, CD-Rs, and vinyl -- including a Woodsist LP titled The Blackest Medicine in 2007 --
Spectre Folk put out 2009’s Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo for Arbitrary Signs, and slated a follow-up Woodsist EP, titled
The Blackest Medicine, Vol. 2, for 2011. ~ Jason Lymangrover