A Grave is a Grim Horse - NR 055 (2008)
Perhaps the history of the song is innate within us. At least that's what we might glean from Steve Von Till's third Neurot Recordings solo outing A Grave Is A Grim Horse. Intertwined with interpretations of songs by Nick Drake, Townes Van Zant, Mickey Newberry and Lyle Lovett, Von Till's powerful yet subtly graceful originals merge with a lexicon that manifests as something beyond signature, something beyond the concept of persona that popular culture has repeatedly sold us over the past 50 years. Where his previous releases showed reverence for folk music forms of the past, A Grave Is A Grim Horse peers directly inward, drawing from this history of song and earnestly embracing the need we all share to etch our mark upon the artifacts that will ultimately survive us.
 If I Should Fall to the Field - NR 020 (2002)
If I Should Fall to the Field is filled with urgent melodies and majestic crescendos of chiming guitars, cymbal crashes and distant vocal harmonies that lull behind Von Till's thick, weathered voice. Throughout, the songwriter's somber vocals are recorded with such breathy intensity it sounds as though each lyric were a whisper for only one listener to hear. He has clearly found the same powerful subtlety harnessed by Michael Gira, Mark Lanegan and Jeffrey Lee Pierce.
 As The Crow Flies - NR 006
The bittersweet solo debut from Neurosis guitarist/singer
and Tribes Of Neurot sound artist Steve Von Till. Reveling in
an eminently beautiful and sad place, these dark and minimal
acoustic songs extend upon trance states induced by his other
projects. Von Till now allows us deeply personal and poetic
insights into his own particular demonology of desire and dread
that has long haunted the peripheral shadows of Neurosis'
more brutal public spectacle.
 Harvestman: Lashing The Rye - NR 037
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