Robert Cherry and Carla Cherry are Reaper On Red. Together they create human-meets-machine music inspired by minimalist art, occult mythologies and dystopian science fiction (a.k.a. current affairs).

“Imagine if John Carpenter and Moe Tucker joined Sisters of Mercy and you’re nearly there,” Electronic Sound wrote of their 2022 debut album,The Zodiac Lights.

The duo’s second album, Doom Daze, is out now. “Referencing the past’s most incredible musical moments and using them to create a brilliant sound for the future, Doom Daze is both sonically clever and brilliantly relevant, timely and timeless,” wrote The Big Takeover.

Live, Reaper On Red have found receptive audiences opening for acts as diverse as the Brian Jonestown Massacre and goth-pop singer Riki.

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ART. NOISE. PSYCH. POP. WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE COSMOS IS GOING ON HERE?

Formed in NYC c. 1992, Poem Rocket released a number of critically adored albums on indie labels such as Bear, PCP, Magic Eye, Carcrashh, and Chicago’s avant jazz and rock label Atavistic. Somewhere in the 00s, band members fragmented into overlapping amniotic dimensions of poetry, visual poetry, film, and other approaches to media and performance. But now, reconvening around a “lost” EP on Silver Girl Records, Poem Rocket is gathering the dark matter hanging from massive filaments stretching across the universe. The aim? To stitch the wormholes from other peripheral universes together, to reconcile the future of fate and desire, to boldly transgress the formal stochastic limits of noise-rock, psych-rock, art-rock, and experimentation with semantic umph and spiritualist transcendence.

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