Lark’s Tongue: New Album Eleusis Available to Preorder
Had you asked me how long it’s been since Lark’s Tongue put out Narrow (review here), their debut album, I definitely wouldn’t have told you it was going on eight years, and yet the numbers will not be denied. The melodically-minded post-heavy rockers offered a showcase of copious potential in that first record — enough so that the better part of a decade later, I still find myself looking forward to discovering what’s in store on Eleusis, which Consouling Sounds has up for preorder now ahead of a Feb. 18 release.
Sadly there’s no audio available to dig into that I can find, but hey, after eight years, certainly one would consider Narrow prime for a refresher, so you’ll find that streaming below, however much it may or may not have to do with what the band are up to now remaining to be seen. I dig the Eleusis cover art though. Reminds me of that Peaceville-style classic logo-type, though I doubt there will be much death-doom happening in the material itself. Still, I’ll take it.
Details/links follow:
Lark’s Tongue – Eleusis – Feb. 18
Lark’s Tongue – Eleusis album is now available for pre-order on CD and vinyl! To be released on the 18th of February.
Pre-order CD: https://bit.ly/Eleusis-CD
Pre-order LP: https://bit.ly/Eleusis-LP
The Mysteries of Eleusis continue to defy scrutiny as one of the most ancient occulted narratives. The promise of communion with Demeter echoes a desirous return to the natural world which seems ever more fleeting as we entangle ourselves amidst the tools of modernity. Meditation upon ancient mysteries invites us to imagine an existence where harmony takes precedence over convenience and where our stories remain hopeful in the face of apathy.
And so it is with Lark’s Tongue’s psychedelic opus, Eleusis. Just as the entheogenic kykeon transmuted pilgrims at the Rites of Demeter, Lark’s Tongue forge a dizzying concoction of heaviness and lightness, tension and release. Eleusis is Lark’s Tongue’s first recording for Consouling Sounds and it is a complex tapestry of melodic grandeur and imperial distortion- commingling the sonic loom with stately lyricism and deeply impassioned vocal performances. The result is an album that speaks to truths both hidden and overt. The songs are at once tribal and personal. There is an enigmatic pull contained in these songs that upon surrender delivers a familiar sense of time and place that is just left of center yet all its own.
This Eleusis is subtle without being inscrutable, and, with the right attention, its charms reveal themselves- richly rewarding bold travelers with songs of yearning and questioning, survival and grief- all returning to the altar of earth as they must- to the natural laws that bind our existence together as we push our way through this life and onward to whatever pantheon awaits.
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