Shane Butler 'Heavy Debt' Record Release

Mary Lattimore at Zebulon

Shane Butler (Olden Yolk/Quilt) - Heavy Debt Record Release

w/ Special Guest Mary Lattimore

& Selector Sets by In Sheep's Clothing DJs

Heavy Debt is the debut solo album from Shane Butler, best known for work with his projects Olden Yolk and Quilt. Marking his first release since Olden Yolk’s 2019 album Living Theatre, the album refines the art-leaning folk of Butler’s past projects into a sharp, singular vision. While retaining many of the neo-psychedelic qualities of Butler's past work, Heavy Debt occupies a more grounded terrain—establishing a firm sonic and lyrical footing in a candid world entirely his own. Recorded in New York during the winter of 2025 alongside producer and multi instrumentalist Jon Nellen, the album pairs rapidly picked guitars and effected woodwinds (played by Isaiah Barr of experimental jazz troupe Onyx Collective) with rich, varied percussion. These calibrated arrangements anchor Butler’s playful lyrics, weaving semi-autobiographical stories about the vagaries of modern life with a plainspoken clarity and a dreamlike fiction.

Through evocative, emotionally resonant music, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, the new LP from American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore, speaks not just for its beloved namesake — a hotel in Croatia facing renovation — but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways.