If you caught the terrific homegrown documentary Now! More! Yes! at this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival, you saw doc subject TW Hansen directing several videos for local band Resurrectionists. (You also saw Hansen selling cars, buying old ambulances, and taking up the mantle of Classic Milwaukee Character.) Here’s one of those videos, “The Ghost This Time,” from 2023’s Now That We Are All Ghosts.
So what have Resurrectionists been up to since then? Plenty. Joe Cannon and his merry band of psych/doom folkies (Jeff Brueggeman, Josh Barto, Gian Pogliano) released a four-track EP, Any Time You Make A Place For Them, in 2025. And now they’ve combined that EP with a new EP, Ok, Let’s Play King, for a double EP that’s called, well, Double EP.
The Any Time portion of Double EP finds Resurrectionists in their noisy, jagged, end-times element: dig the anxious cacophony of tracks like “Jokers And Their Jokes” and “Hey Man.” The banjo-heavy King portion, meanwhile, finds Cannon and company smoothing out some of their rough edges and delivering four (relatively) conventional Americana and country-leaning ditties. Hell, “Here Lies The Bottle” could practically work as a late-night wedding slow dance. If, you know, it wasn’t about alcoholism.
“I joke sometimes that this is where we finally gave up on genre,” Cannon says. If Double EP is indeed the product of throwing genre out the window, good riddance. (You can purchase Double EP on vinyl or CD HERE.)
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