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With Chelsea Wolfe, her frequent collaborator and bandmate Ben Chisholm, and Cave In's Stephen Brodsky. It's called Bloodmoon: I and was produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, and the musicians began collaborating for the prospective project in 2016.
From the artist formerly known as Lingua Ignota comes easily one of the scariest records I've ever heard. Imagine the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack if that film was a slow burn misandrist slasher. Perfect.
The album was conceived as an emotional purge, a means of coming to terms with the tumult of the outside world by exploring the complexities of one’s inner unrest.
Wolfe strips the songs down to their raw essence - just her voice, a guitar or piano - capturing vulnerability and unfiltered truth. The music stands exposed, stripped and skyclad, each track a rite of passage, a descent into the heart.
Similar to her work as Lingua Ignota, this record is steeped in pathos, but now the wrath of God gives way to His deliverance: "His boundless love shall make you whole."
Philophobia, Arab Strap's sophomore slam dunk released in the spring of 1998, begins with one of the most memorable opening lines in all of indie rock: "It was the biggest cock you'd ever seen, but you've no idea where that cock has been." So begins an al