The Cult of Kassi Valazza, founded in 2019 after her self-released debut album, Dear Dead Days, is sure to get a surge in membership following her newest release of Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing, a stellar cosmic soup concocted of hazy, honky tonk highway vibes and that neon-lit, lilting Valazza warble. 

…Knows Nothing finds it heart and soul in Valazza, and its feet in Portland-based band TK and the Holy Know Nothings, made up of Taylor Kingman (guitars, bass, vocals), Jay Cobb Anderson (harmonica, guitars, pedal steel, bass), Lewi Longmire (pedal steel, piano, bass, trumpet), Sydney Nash (organ, Farfisa, cornet, Wurlitzer), and Tyler Thompson (drums). The group’s swirling psychedelia combines with Valazza’s gutsy and graceful poetry for a singular sound that washes over the listener like a flash flood, heavy and without warning.