Yawning Man - Pavement Ends - VINYL LP

SCOWL is a band that sounds exactly like their name implies. Venomous, fierce, antagonistic. A sneer not to be crossed. Over the last five years, the Santa Cruz, California, band has firmly planted their flag in the hardcore scene with their vicious sound and ripping live show, sharing stages around the world with Circle Jerks, Touché Amoré, and Limp Bizkit, and filling slots at prominent festivals like Coachella, Sick New World, and Reading and Leeds. But with their new album, Are We All Angels (Dead Oceans), SCOWL is aiming to funnel all that aggression through a more expansive version of themselves.Much of Are We All Angels grapples with SCOWL's newfound place in the hardcore scene, a community which has both embraced the band and made them something of a lightning rod over the past few years. Standout single InchNot Hell, Not HeavenInch outright rejects the narratives cast onto them by outsiders. InchIt's about feeling victimized and being a victim, but not wanting to identify with being a victim,Inch explains vocalist Kat Moss. InchIt's trying to find grace in the fact that I have my power. I live in my reality. You have to deal with whatever you're dealing with, and it ain't working for me.Inch The band breaks from a sense of disassociation to seek deeper connections on InchFantasy.Inch InchIt's incredibly challenging to try to balance my love for the scene while also feeling, in some spaces, extremely alienated and hated,Inch Moss says. Inch'Fantasy' is about feeling like I don't know how to connect with these people anymore, because I have shelled myself away so hard.Inch The album ends in a philosophical place on the closing, titular track, InchAre We All Angels,Inch asking questions like, InchIs this all there is?Inch and ultimately putting it on the listener to decide. InchIt's about the personal struggle between good and evil. It doesn't matter how 'good'

Dedicating an album to the dark side of the Lied might seem inappropriate in these times of Covid, climate change and refugee crises, but as a mezzo-soprano Olivia has always been drawn to the darker roles in opera, the sad arias in oratorio and the deep laments in song. After our recent recording ('Dirty Minds'), which focused on 'la petite mort', it seemed a natural progression to turn our attention to 'la grande mort'! Darkness in the outside world and the inner self has always been - alongside Love - one of the chief themes of vocal music, and compositions and songs about death are legion during every period of musical history. The music on this recording is extremely diverse and we relished the idea of programming songs from different centuries in different styles and genres. We begin with a collection of songs about melancholia, inner abysses, longing for death and murderous lust. But the album is also rich in songs about comfort and hope, light instead of despair - with lashings of black humor! Composers down the ages have used innovative approaches to render the theme of death. Chromaticism is used tellingly by Monteverdi and Schubert. Duparc's sensuous 'Extase' (1878), is nothing short of a miniature Liebestod. Korngold and Wolfgang Rihm play with translucent semitone sighs, Schumann's 'Nachtlied' is characterized by hovering harmonies; Strauss and Korngold use late-romantic opulence; while tonality with Charles Ives and Alban Berg begins to lose it's hold, while Berg, abandons tonality entirely. John Cage goes a step further and directs the pianist to drum the notes on the lid of a completely closed piano. Randy Newman's 'In Germany before the war' is wreathed in mystery.

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R Album Tracks 1. Turnin' Off a Memory 2. If We Make It Through December 3. Today I Started Loving You Again 4. Silver Wings 5. It's Been a Great Afternoon 6. Ramblin' Fever 7. Always Wanting You 8. Farmer's Daughter 9. Roots of My Raising 10. Things Aren't Funny Anymore 11. Old Man from the Mountain 12. Cherokee Maiden 13. Holding Things Together 14. Kentucky Gambler 15. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink 16. Way I Am 17. Misery and Gin 18. It's All in the Movies 19. I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall 20. From Graceland to the Promised Land