Friday, 22 October 2010

DOWNLOAD: ...And The Earth Swarmed With Them - The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?

...And The Earth Swarmed With Them
The Fading Voice Of The Old Era Speaks To Us, But Where Are The Ears Left To Hear It?

Hawk Moon Records
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Here's some homegrown post rock epicness from the sleepy downs of Sussex, that their label Hawk Moon, has put up for free download, more than generously in this case, because this is an album that matches the kinds of grim wonderment of Red Sparowes or Grails. You know the kind of sonic landscape you'll find yourself traversing when you see a name like ...And The Earth Swarmed With Them even more so when the album title so evocatively cinematic and imposing.  Production duties have been handled by Justin Broadrick and James Plotkin - a mix and mastering double team that have defined genres, and here they make sure the atmosphere hangs heady and heavy over this like brewing thunderheads over an electric sky, the movements building towards great purpose, narratives that unpack themselves into explosive crescendos before crashing exhausted and supine into silence.  Post-rock hasn't corpsed yet, not while there's these kinds of ideas and such a wealth of life within them.

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