🖤A solid summer building the new solo rig looping soundscape, writing songs and dipping into solo touring - a note that Desert Liminal can appear in any of these iterations: solo, classic duo & trio, and ever-expanding future possibilities. I’m in it for life.
and 𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓭𝓾𝓬𝓲𝓷𝓰 Accessory XL, a shapeshifting touring ensemble in support of my friend Jason Balla’s beautiful solo project Accessory @accessory.usa - I’ve been singing with ACXL for a couple short years full of many new friends, high energy and pure joy. Hope to connect with music friends and fam on this upcoming run of dates and show you XL!
11/5 - Chicago Empty Bottle
11/14 - Minneapolis Eagles 34
11/15 - Sioux Falls Total Drag
11/16 - Rozz Tox Rock Island
12/15 - Chicago Thalia Hall
singing Lana with my artistic hero and friend @fredthomas at @thirdmanrecords Detroit, a rare Midwest tour for Frog 🥲 all timer, I will have this happy memory forever, thank you Fred ♾️
upcoming:
Monday October 20 opening for
Peel Dream Magazine
Glow Hall KZoo Michigan, doors 7 PM
𝓫𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓸𝓬𝓮𝓪𝓷 is Desert Liminal’s second release on Whited Sepulchre Records, out this fall 🖤 I started this project almost a decade ago, and this is the record I’ve been trying to make the entire time. Thank you to our friends and mentors in the Chicago community, making music with you has been the great joy and honor of my life 🕯️
A Chicago dream team brought all the art involved in this record into the world -
Desert Liminal is me, Rob Logan and Mallory Linehan
Co-produced and engineered by Nick Broste
at Palisade Studios and Kind Wizard
Mixed by Brian Sulpizio
Mastered by Justin Perkins
Cover art by Neal Vandenbergh
Design by Eliza Weber
Pressed at Smashed Plastic
From Whited Sepulchre Records:
Black Ocean is appropriately stirring, at times reminiscent of early Sinead O’Connor or late Beach House or contemporaries like Tempers. These songs are brimming with deeply-felt melodies and memorable hooks, equal parts haunted and uplifting –– epic, driving pop music coaxed from swirling violin, synthesizers, live and synthetic drums and dazzling vocal harmonies.
Fans of Lower Dens, Alvvays, Slowdive, and Midwife will find much to love in Black Ocean’s hypnagogic but dynamic and memorable style. But Desert Liminal are doing more than carving out a space for themselves alongside their contemporaries. These songs are so personal –– they so vividly live and breathe at this particular intersection of people that is Desert Liminal –– that they simply could not have been sung by anyone else.
Order & listening links live in bio 🖤
This project is partially supported by an Individual Artists Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
SAT 16 MAY
OUTLETProgramme Presents: LOLINA
w/ DESERT LIMINAL
$20 DOOR / $15 ADV / $10 MEMBERS
all ages
tickets in bio
Lolina is a London-based electronic and digital musician, also known for her past projects as Inga Copeland. She was a member of the band Hype Williams between 2009 and 2013. Lolina’s releases and live performances evolved through experiments with recording and playback equipment. She also runs the label Relaxin' Records, releasing some of the most interesting electronic music from the London underground and beyond. @relaxinrecords
Desert Liminal's unique sound centers dream-like poetry and looping vocal melody within a cloud of analog synth textures. DL's songwriting strength lies in alchemizing bleak moments into a beautiful and distant landscape. @desertliminal@chelsea__bridge
April 2 Thursday
Clipper - 9 PM - free 🎧🖤
Polymer Slug!
Rikki G Godd
Desert Liminal solo - keys pedals vox loopd
art by @formal.gs
Ted birthday cake for modern times
solo set this Friday Feb 20
synth pedals vox at @soccerclubclub
8 pm (music) - 11 pm
celebrating the opening of Kate Spencer Stewart’s solo show Level Level, presented by Soccer Club Club and Paul Soto NY. Stewart’s paintings are attempts to depict “nothing, or the void.”
2923 North Cicero Avenue, Chicago
bevs by @illuminatedbrewworks & @visitor.fyi
Level Level Feb 20 - March 27
thank you Kate & Drag City for having me ☁️
🖤🔗 stickies are live! we like to joke around around here, we like to have a good time.
Happy ~ 1 year anniversary to Black Ocean, the most fully realized thing I’ve ever made with people I love dearly - a physical art object in itself with beautiful design by Eliza Weber & art by Mr. Neal Vandenbergh.
Closing track Collarbone is a slowcore burner poem that’s psychically very important to me. Mallory arrived in the studio on a frosty morning and casually laid down absolutely perfect vocal wall layers on it in a couple takes, all improvised. It totally blew my mind and still does, nice to have that forever ♾️
tomorrow night! 🌹👠 Diamond Jubilee has been my constant friend for walks, drives, wind ups, unwinds, lab work, cooking, parties, cries. I’ll also be at the Thalia show tonight ❤️
11-5-25 Empty Bottle 33 1/3
Cindy Lee, Freak Heat Waves
Accessory XL @accessory.usa
Peel Dream Magazine
with Tambourina and special guest DESERT LIMINAL from Chicago
Date Monday, October 20, 2025
Doors 6:30 PM
Show 7:30 PM
Venue Glow Hall, 246 N Kalamazoo Mall, Kalamazoo, MI 49007
All Ages
Tickets $15 advance / $20 day of show
From Los Angeles, making their Kalamazoo debut at Glow Hall, Peel Dream Magazine (Topshelf Records, formerly Slumberland/Tough Love) conjures songs that hover in a strange in-between space — hypnotic pop coated in haze, rhythms that lock in and refuse to let go, melodies that bloom like a half-remembered dream. Critics often draw lines to Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, and Belle & Sebastian, but their sound is unmistakably their own — shimmering, pulsing, and very much in the present moment.
Opening the night, Tambourina returns after years away from the stage. A cornerstone of Kalamazoo’s shoegaze lineage and curators of the long-running Kalamashoegazer Festival, their presence makes this night as much a homecoming as it is a debut. For longtime fans it’s a reunion, and for newer listeners it’s a chance to feel the roots of this city’s underground sound.
