Ghost Marrow’s earth + death has a claustrophobic intimacy to it. Everything from the cascading synth arpeggios and guitar echoes to Aurielle Zeitler’s voice are like small, phantom touches across the skin. Visceral details build textural walls inside these songs; grating screams are masked by lilting melodies, but only to a point. Elegiac passages glow, an unexpected respite amid overwhelming intensity that, in the end, heightens this music’s impact. A shaded sonic reminder that all things begin and all things end. earth + death is beautiful in unexpected ways, and has stayed etched in my mind for weeks, haunting the darkest corners and brightest horizons in turn.
earth + death is out now on The Garrote. Pick up a copy HERE.
Tracklist:
Tim Hecker – Sketch 9
AF13, Greg Leisz, Ghost Marrow, Suzanne Ciani – Snow Ritual (featuring Ghost Marrow)
Stereolab – K Stars
Loscil – In Threes
Sunn O))) – Sin Nanna
Cluster – Sowiesoso
Chelsea Wolfe – I Died With You
Windy & Carl – Undercurrent
Ghost Marrow – sung / conflict
Alessandro Cortini – Iniziare
Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd – Sea, Swallow Me
Emma Ruth Rundle – Dialogue Preceding
Ghost Marrow – might of the small
Stars of the Lid – Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 1
Neurosis, Jarboe – Receive
Mamiffer – Mara
Chris Carter – Solidit
Tarentel – Ghostly Head
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