JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Death Rock In the early 90s there

In the early 90s there were a few like minded friends making a unique style of lo-fi pop music

It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia act

made of subtle percussive crackles

trailed by Rushford's whistling portative organ tones

Ochi’s compositions open portals into primal landscapes

JOHNNY COLEY - Where the Smoke Goes LP Death Rock In the early 90s thereLobby Art is honored to present the final two LPs from the late Birmingham, AL based queer poet and artist Johnny Coley, who passed away in 2025 at the age of 76. Tender, lucid, and slippery poems unspool in Johnnys signature drawl, charting oblique journeys through the sidereal and mundane. He composes painterly landscapes of his beloved Alabama and imagines waking up in the crowded streets of London. This is Southern Surreal story telling where each