This House is Creaking

There is always a third mind created in the process of a two-person collaboration. In the case of Chicago-based musicians Micah Miller and Ehmed Nauman, that third mind happens to be called This House Is Creaking (THiC). The pair aren’t satisfied with convention, or at least not with presenting conventions conventionally: they are influenced as much by '90s alt-rock and midwest emo as they are the spasmic digital experiments of PC Music. THiC use their pop-forward, anthemic approach to art-rock to turn their inner monologues into a dialogue that traces the contours of trying to feel secure in one’s existence. At turns aggressive and caressing, THiC blends the beautiful, the abject, and the outright strange to explore experiences had in the world — a period of trying to change oneself, a miscommunication, getting comfortable  — and turn them into sonic experiments which both bombard and comfort the listener.