About Salt Lick
If you're crate-digging through the "Shoegazi alt country-adjacent indie psych-Spock" section at your local record shop, you'll find Salt Lick front and center. Malia Seavey, Teddy Keezer, Kevin Middleton, Ian McQuillen, and Dylan Hanwright make up the Seattle/Tacoma based band. Their first full length, The Gift of Missing, was released August of 2022 via Den Tapes.
"The Gift of Missing benefits greatly from the newfound solidification of the band's ranks, creating a band with a great deal of musical chemistry-abounds on sterling performances on "Cold Karma" and "Hothouse Flower" to match their excellent songwriting and Seavey's outsized charisma. The Keezer-written "Blue Car" is stately and melancholy, while "Laying" feels powerfully resolute. Seavey's sense of interiors in her songwriting (especially on songs like "Stray Into Wonder," "(Don't) Bring Me Down," and the album's title track) is a perfect match for her lights-out vocal performances and the band's propensity for lush, full, climactic arrangements." -Martin Douglas, KEXP