Worshipper - Shadow Hymns - VINYL LP

Worshipper - Light In The Wire [VINYL LP] date 05/17/2019

Following 2019's acclaimed self-titled debut album, Metal Preyers take the left hand path into a gloomy backwater filled with haunted creatures and fraught with peril. InchShadow SwampsInch again finds London-based Jesse Hackett handling the music and Chicago's Mariano Chavez fashioning the album's visual identity, which this time includes a short film and book for a fully immersive experience. InchShadow SwampsInch is the soundtrack to a pitch-black fairy tale about a father and daughter as they journey through a swamp avoiding gremlins, red swines and crater creatures. Musically, it pivots between the clattering Czech new wave experimentation of InchValerie and her Week of WondersInch composer Luboš Fišer, or the magical, eccentric lounge of Birmingham's Broadcast, and the grinding industrial grot of Italian pioneer Maurizio Bianchi. This time around, Hackett has roped in production assists from his six year-old-daughter wonder Nyasha hackett who used phone memos to record herself singing - veteran Metal Preyers collaborator Lord Tusk, and Manchester-based painter, DJ and producer Richard Harris, aka Sockethead. The crew inks an unsettling, richly textured sonic landscape, with claws of rhythmic smoke curling around chiming otherworldly xylophone, disembodied fiddle drones echoing over screwed 'n chopped beatbox dirt and half-heard magical vocals buried under clouds of white noise. Album Tracks 1. Murking Shadows 2. Ecto Green Code 3. The Preyers Forest 4. Scream Dreamer 5. Red Swines 6. Crate Creature 7. Carpenters Cabin 8. Slime Things Accent 9. Wasp Faced Invasion 10. Metal Mans Revolt 11. On Her Way 12. Gremlin Gurgle 13. Shadow Swamps 14. Escape - the Sunrise

Twin Shadow, the fifth album under George Lewis's musical moniker of Twin Shadow, brims with joy. These ten songs are imbued with the same energy and curiosity that compels someone to first pick up an instrument and noodle around, not because they harbor aspirations to write a hit but rather for the thrill of hearing-and feeling-what's capable of happening when a string is plucked or a hand brushes over a snare. (It's no wonder that Lewis employs the first instrument he first played, the saxophone, to electrifying effect on this album.) Recorded both at FAMA Studios in the Dominican Republic and Los Angeles's Shady Acres, Twin Shadow's songs are distillations of beautiful memories and stories both real and imagined. Album Tracks 1. Alemania 2. Sugarcane 3. Johnny & Jonnie 4. Get Closer 5. Is There Any Love 6. Gated Windows 7. Modern Man 8. Lonestar 9. Brown Sugar 10. I Wanna Be Here (Shotgun)