Drummer/composer Ches Smith debuts his inventive
new two-guitar quartet -featuring Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman and bassist Nick Dunston – on the striking new album Clone Row, out digitally June 6 and with vinyl out October 3, 2025 on Otherly Love Records.

“This definitely ain’t your father’s guitar band,” writes no less an expert on six-string subversion than Marc Ribot, who penned the album’s liner notes. “It’s as if I’m hearing a Jim Hall concert in which one of us did a lot of mushrooms, or... some post-punk, post-Dave Brubeck, post-trip-hop experiment with classical form.”