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$15.00
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1-2 Weeks
ARTIST
TITLE
A Wound Of Body
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
121STCYCLE 121STCYCLE
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/9/2018

A Wound Of Body is the first chapter in Common Eider, King Eider's Wound 'duology', forming the group's most focused and fully realised work to date. Offering a sprawling, audial exploration of wounds at once physical and spiritual, social and societal, natural and environmental. A Wound Of Body is a beautifully stark soundscape, dolorously dense, suffocatingly oppressive and utterly claustrophobic. An immersive black hole of bleak, cavernous drone music and disquieting, desolate ambience, each track a hushed and harrowing ritual; the surface minimalism underpinned by a churning morass of sound, a layered liturgy of blackened invocations and nebulous strings hovering in the shadows. Presented in a beautiful black and silver duotone sleeve, adorned with images of micro-landscapes rendered in bone, stark images of the alien, otherworldly topography that lurks beneath the skin, emblematic of the inevitable decay and disintegration of our physical forms: the ruin we become, and the ruin we leave behind."