a r t i s t : Common Eider, King Eider
t i t l e : Worn
d a t e : 2010
l a b e l : Root Strata
c a t : RS72
s o u r c e : Vinyl
g e n r e : Dark Ambient/Drone
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2010
t r a c k s : 06
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 47,8 MB
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Now expanded to a four piece, Common Eider, King Eider have
crafted yet another blast of high end wind chill that whips
through the empty spaces in your skull. More stories of flora
& fauna that hang beautifully in dynamic rooms of piano,
strings, voices and stargazing guitar explosions born of layer
after layer of feedback. This ghost world is all gray and
black, with a high condensation of loss penetrating
throughout. Moonlight occasionally lights the path, but for
the most part prepare to be lost in the woods. Liz Harris
(Grouper) and Tom Carter (Charalambides) on the tracks 'Ennui'
and 'Earth Liver' add to the overall sense of dread. Edition
of 300 records with silkscreen covers done by the band.
boomy:
Featuring guest appearances from Grouper's Liz Harris and
Charalambides' Tom Carter, this new release from Common Eider,
King Eider sees the project expand beyond its nucleus of Bob
Fisk (Badgerlore, Free Porcupine Society) towards a more fully
formed quartet line-up. The album begins poised in a state of
fairly extreme quietness, exchanging wafts of bowed guitar,
fragmentary piano phrases and ethereal vocals through the
course of 'The Rabbits Will Come Again'. After a slow start,
the piece's dark, avant-folk beauty becomes fully apparent. In
its beginnings, 'When We Sewed Skins' takes on a similarly
gaseous tone - like an experimental Clannad, if you will -
only to erupt from out of nowhere with blasts of distortion,
feedback and cantankerous cymbal clashes. Liz Harris brings
her disembodied vocal stylings to 'Ennui', combining with
freetime waves of slow-shifting piano and guitar to
spine-tingling effect, before the tone changes somewhat for
'They Want To Dig For Gold But All They Will Find Is Blood'.
Here, a lumbering electric guitar drone swerves between
intervals like a restless doom-metal track while a chorus of
wordless vocals provide some weary pathos. Album closer 'Earth
Liver' proves especially strong, running into abstract
modern-classical form with its strange tunings and microtonal
string arrangements.
A big 'fuck you' to blogs and P2P.
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01-The Rabbits Will Come Again [04:45]
02-When We Sewed Skins [08:24]
03-Ennui [04:01]
04-They Want To Dig For Gold But All They Will Find Is [05:29]
Blood (Cell Phone Mix)
05-Puppies [04:23]
06-Earth Liver [05:50]
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32:52 min