Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Transmissions
Episode: Transmissions Podcast: Johnathan Ford of Unwed Sailor
Description: Our guest this week is Johnathan Ford of Unwed Sailor. For more than two decades, he’s led the post-rock band Unwed Sailor. In that time, Ford has steered the band—an ever-evolving collective that’s included members of Pedro the Lion, Fleet Foxes, Danielson Famile and more—through a searching string of albums, incorporating the influence of ambient music, shoegaze, new age, math rock, and drone into its body of work, which constitutes one of the great under-recognized discographies in all of indie rock.  Unwed Sailor’s latest is called Look Alive, and it showcases th...