King Buffalo Post “Shadows” Video From Acheron Album Film
Say hello — and Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it — to the first full-song audio and video to be unveiled from King Buffalo‘s upcoming LP and album-film, Acheron (review here), which is out Dec. 3. There was the teaser before, but with “Shadows,” you get far more of a sense both of what the four-song record has on offer and what the vibe was like when they started playing songs in that cave, deep beneath the surface of the earth. Granted, there hasn’t been a ton to compare it to on my end in terms of going-places-and-doing-stuff, but hitting up Howes Cavern to watch King Buffalo record was the coolest thing I’ve been to this year so far. And I only add the “so far” because I’ve got another, not-KB-related studio visit planned for December and you never know what might happen on a given day or two. But the standard is high, even considering the context of 2021.
If you couldn’t tell, I’m writing this while listening to “Shadows,” and the song just hit its circa-midpoint swell. Acheron has a couple linear builds, as did The Burden of Restlessness (review here) in June, and I guess if you’re only counting the first seven minutes or so, “Shadows” is one of them, but the song runs 11 minutes total, and I think the quiet exploration in the back end is pretty essential for more than just the return-kick to which it leads. Enough so that the band put it out as the first whole track unveiled — I would’ve expected the opening title-track, but it’s nice to be surprised — and would seem to have done so with the clear intent to convey just how different Acheron is from the preceding album in their plague-era trilogy, the third part of which will be released in 2022.
Don’t let me keep you. It’s a holiday, and while I could probably go on about the record, suffice it to say that King Buffalo have two of 2021’s best albums to their credit. With the next impending, they’re a bright spot in a perpetually weird reality.
Dive in:
King Buffalo, “Shadows” official video
From the new album and film, ‘Acheron’ available everywhere on 12/3/21.
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Directed by Adam Antalek.
