The thing about sounds in unison is that you can always tell they're not really one thing.
That's not really the point. To be in unison is not to masquerade as one thing, like children piled into a trench coat.
Rather, it is to hear the individual parts vibrating with and against one another, with all of the color and perspective and texture of each intact.
Unison is at heart a duo: it is Stephen Wisniewski and Marc Jacob Hudson making songs together.
Stephen writes words and plays different kinds of guitars; Marc plays bass, and also understands keyboards and complex machines, and actually knows how music works, which is always helpful.
They sometimes expand and grow more limbs through collaboration - piling more children into the trench coat, adding more color and texture to the common voice - but at its center, it is two humans.
There's something singular and inspiring about musical duos, where things like opposition, symmetry, contrast, and balance start to happen in elemental ways. It is a conversation, in its most basic and intimate form, and a recognition of the alchemy that can be produced by two humans creating in unison.
Musically, they take inspiration from the endless possibility, and the productive limitations, of being a duo. Instead of preconceived instrumentation, they often start with elemental sounds - footfalls on a staircase; ghostly wind; shuffling, percussive gravel - and build songs that reflect their process. Expansive and focused, endless things and one thing. Reaching toward something in common.
