Gravesend - Methods Of Human Disposal - VINYL LP

For his latest album 'Fever Longing Still' which was recorded at Neil Finn's studio Roundhead in New Zealand, he's focused on the topic of Love. The fire of love. The pain of love. Love of family. Love entwined in memory and place. Love has always been at the heart of many of Paul Kelly's greatest songs.Taken from a line in Sonnet 147 by Shakespeare, whose writing has thrilled and inspired Kelly ever since schooldays, Fever Longing Still is his first set of new original material since 2018's Nature, and it delivers 12 additions to that superb catalog of love songs spanning more than 40 years. 'Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy,' as one of the new songs says.As any of the best-loved songs from Kelly's pen, 'All Those Smiling Faces' is an emotional and vivid exploration of recollection, like peering inside the memories in a photo album.First appearing as a banjo-led version on 1992's bluegrass album Smoke, 'Taught By Experts' also surfaces. 'I have been circling that song for years,' Kelly says. 'We thought we should try it with a chiming electric guitar part, and when we did that, we knew that was it.' Among the newly-penned tracks, 'Harpoon to the Heart,' is the kind of song which might have been written any time in the past 100 years. Kelly says, 'It has a quirky, playful spirit to it, which earned it's place on the record. That one was written quickly and 'Houndstooth Dress' came out in one go.Inch'Looking back on what we've done with these songs, it's really a band record,' Kelly says. 'Our philosophy is eclectic; we want to make each song different from the last. I just love that when I bring a new song to them, it can take on a completely new life.'

Vinyl LP pressing. The charming strength of the resulting Dungeonesse rests in the dichotomy formed by of a bold re-introduction of the beautiful imperfections of the human voice into a landscape of what is an increasingly mechanized process of music making. The fun resides in the listen.

The dark, seedy underworld of New York City once again emerges as the cityscape is tainted by sewage, crack smoke and the trade of flesh. The streets, once bustling with life, permeate with the grotesque and filth-ridden chaos of yesteryear. Among these harsh realities, within the walls of the dimly lit alley ways, a stench reeks of bodily fluids and rat feces. On the subway platforms, desperate souls engage in random acts of violence on one another over a few measly bucks. The East River runs a sickly green and the city's hue mirrors the shadows cast by these illicit endeavors. Amid this unsettling somber reality a soundscape to capture the horror is now realized in the form of Gravesend's second album.The new album Gowanus Death Stomp compounds the cruelty displayed on 2021 debut Methods Of Human Disposal into an ever more gritty and primal barrage of violence. At the crossroads of criminal depravity and urban malaise, Gravesend utilize many tools of the trade. Black / death / grind / war metal all meld seamlessly into a tar pit of scathing back-alley sadism and acid-tongued vocals.Like a newly found corpse down by the docks, the smell of decomposition is wafting out of every track on Gowanus Death Stomp. And as with NYC's underground legends from Cro-Mags to Swans to Type O Negative, Gravesend embodies the pulse of the city, even as that pulse bleeds out on the concrete.