KEROSENE 454 - At Zero LP Hardrock it’s precocious

it’s precocious

quite literally “called down off the road” as he sings in elegiac album opener “Silver Roses”

mediated across the boundaries of genre

ranging from urgent to contemplative and dreamlike

KEROSENE 454 - At Zero LP Hardrock it’s precociousCITRINE VINYL. In the fall of 1997 after touring with Boys Life, the band went into Inner Ear Studios to record At Zero with J. Robbins (Jawbox, Magpie Cage Studio), Don Zientara, and Juan Carrera (Warmers, Slowdime Records). The album came together at a crossroads where a shifting D. C. scene, evolving musical interests, and broader cultural changes all collided; all of which shaped the writing and recording of the record. Whereas earlier records