Barbara Western

Washington DC's Koshari is set to return with their third full-length album, Light in Dark Places. Built around the ethereal voice of Barb Western and the signature guitar playing of Bryan Baxter, Koshari blends the spacey, effects-drenched swirl of bands like My Bloody Valentine or Swervedriver with the aggression and heaviness of the Deftones or Tool. The result is a creative voice at once familiar yet without close analog, that has been described by Kim Kirkpatrick of online magazine C60 Crew as "packed with atmosphere, beauty [and] substance."