EARTH – angels of darkness, demons of light 1 – CD
CDsouthern lord recordings201114,90€
True that with each brand new studio album, Earth evolves, and it is this willingness to experiment with different sounds and different musicians that has enabled the band to remain consistently interesting and undoubtedly always unique. Following the “A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction” reissue, Earth‘s next offering is a brand new studio album, “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1”, a fine testament to the fact that they have come a long way since 1989.
Drawing on inspiration from both British Folk-Rock bands the Pentangle and Fairport Convention and the North African Tuareg band Tinariwen, the new material, while still ‘heavy’ is much more fluid and melodically oriented, less dense and more textured and nuanced. It contains greater improvisatory interplay between the musicians. On one hand, the new album acknowledges previous recordings… on the other hand, there have been some significant changes which have given birth to yet another new sound, the main change being the line up and so joining Dylan and Adrienne on the album is cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana, David Byrne, Black Cat Orchestra, Laura Veirs) and Karl Blau (K Records, Laura Veirs, Microphones) on electric bass.