Nonreturner
“What’s initially striking about Columbia, Mo.’s Nonreturner is how their music reverberates with the stately, supernatural beacons of the world’s iconic mysteries—this could be a perfect soundtrack for a trip to a Mayan pyramid or a voyage through the Bermuda Triangle.”
-Mike Rengel, PLAYBACK:stl
Nonreturner has been described as sounding similar to “Radiohead circa Kid A and Amnesiac; The Church; a rock-n-roll Autechre, if such a thing dared to exist; The Verve’s first two LPs; the busy three way intersection of psychedelia, indie rock, and IDM” (PLAYBACK:stl) “it’s a little bit ambient, a little bit shoegaze, a little bit indie-pop” (A Ravenous Horde)
Nonreturner was a band from 2005-2011. Nonreturner consisted of Zach Biri, Michael Hopkins, Logan Epps, and a rotating cast of bass players which included John-Paul McFarland of In Dark Trees, Clint McMillen of Ursus Arctos, Carrie Wade of Conceal and Carry, Erik Moore of Burger Kingdom, and Jarrett Crader of Kingdom Flying Club.
The band has two releases, the first under Barn Owl as the Barn Owl EP, which shows the seminal stages of Nonerturner’s sound which evolved into more fully realized compositions with Nonreturner’s first full length eponymous release in 2008.