Aarktica - No Solace In Sleep - VINYL LP

Limited orange colored vinyl LP pressing. Album Tracks 1. 1. Trick of the Light 2. 2. to Love Is to Believe 3. 3. Why Say Anything? 4. 4. Ecstatic Light Transmission 5. 5. Destination Paradise 6. 6. Cloud Formations 7. 7. the Bird That Hides Itself 8. 8. Laughing in the Rain

Double colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2022 . Aarktica is vocalist/guitarist Jon DeRosa. Jon has created a diverse catalog of music beginning in 1999, with the ambient guitar opus No Solace In Sleep (Silber). Since then DeRosa has traversed many musical styles in his primary vehicle, Aarktica and released several albums of darkly orchestral chamber pop under his own name, as well as two countrypolitan folk albums as Pale Horse and Rider. We Will Find the Light finds DeRosa at an intersection of influences and experience, and perhaps sounding the most at ease he's ever been, blending his affinity for ambient guitar soundscapes and understated dark folk into a cohesive work, which moves seamlessly through both melancholia and optimism. Within these songs we hear the influences of Leonard Cohen, This Mortal Coil and Nick Cave intermingling with those of minimalist composers like Ingram Marshall and ambient artists like Juliana Barwick and Steve Roach. Album Tracks 1. Like Embers 2. Can't Say I've Missed You 3. Celestial Transmission 4. Olha O Sol Que Vai Nascendo 5. Goodnight 6. A Quiet Place 7. Bridge of Fire 8. May It Be So 9. Delicate Waltz of Shadows 10. Sirenita Bobinsana 11. We Will Find the Light

Armor for Sleep - THERE IS NO MEMORY BIO How much of our past do we carry with us into the present? And how much of it should (or shouldn't) we leave behind? Those are the simple yet profound questions at the heart of There Is No Memory. The fifth full-length from Armor for Sleep-and the New Jersey outfit's second record after a 15 year wait for it's predecessor, 2022's The Rain Museum-it's songs force the listener to question the very nature of their existence, of what makes us the people we are. It does that because that's precisely what Ben Jorgensen was doing while writing it. While The Rain Museum was a record written in the throes of the dissolution of the Armor for Sleep frontman's eight year marriage and his subsequent divorce, it's setting was more fictional and metaphorical. By comparison, There Is No Memory is much more literal, much more grounded in the real world, and much closer to the bone. InchWhen you're going through a traumatic experience,Inch he says, Inchand are actually underwater in an event like that, it's very difficult to have any kind of perspective on anything other than that one thing that's consuming all aspects of your life. The Rain Museum was written right after I went through this crazy life event. For this one, in contrast, I'm higher off that waterline, and I have a broader perspective now. I've been taking stock of my life as a whole, and so I found myself thinking and writing about the strange experience of memories and the power they have over all facets of who I am.Inch If that statement doesn't give it away, one listen to this record will. There Is No Memory is actually punctuated by it-it's an album steeped in life (and lives) lived, in recollections of the past, in the absence of what once was, in the lacuna brought on by the memories of what had been. Jorgensen is well aware of the irony of the title, but it's an intentional