The Dead Tongues // Body of Light / I Am A Cloud 2xLP / 2xCD

アメリカ・ノースカロライナのフォーク作家The Dead Tonguesが、2024年7月に同国インディーレーベルPsychic Hotlineからリリースしたアルバムです。

オルタナ・カントリー16曲を収録。

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Available on 2 x 12" black vinyl or 2 x CD in cardstock wallet.

Tracklist:

1. Body of Light 04:01
2. Dirt For A Dying Sun 06:25
3. Dreamer 03:41
4. Fading Away 04:25
5. Daylily 03:34
6. Moonshadow 05:13
7. Wolves 04:09
8. Big Nothing 03:18
9. Hard Times, Sore Eyes 04:00
10. Lightning
11. I'm A Cloud Now 07:27
12. Formations
13. A Bridge
14. Where Love All Happened 02:13
15. Letters of Returning
16. Even Here, Even Now

Text excerpt by Psychic Hotline:

"Across the last 15 years, Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues has emerged as one of modern folk’s most distinct voices. As idiosyncratic and spectral as the songs have sometimes been, Gustafson has always tied his visions and verses to the kinds of hooks you tuck away like talismans, pulled out in case of emergency. Dust, Unsung Passage, Desert: The Dead Tongues’ albums remain some of the more compelling and curious works in their field on this side of a century. The latest edition to The Dead Tongues’ catalog, the song-centric and magnetic Body of Light and the discursive and wonderfully elliptical I Am a Cloud, is 16 complete tunes split across interweaving and disparate albums.

Before heading to Betty’s, Gustafson spent a month at “the Shack,” a primitive and private structure in rural western North Carolina, working on new material and sorting through piles of poems, sticky notes scattered across the windows, and stacks of free writing streams of thought. Most of the songs were written during this time – the exquisite “Daylily,” a warm little gift for his partner, or “I’m a Cloud Now,” a fever dream of song and spoken-word about the toggle between identity and ephemerality.

The creative energy was free flowing, deep and explorative, songs somehow coming together in a manner both freakishly fast and patient. In this energy and specific space the groundwork for the album was rooted, springing forth from the thick of the elemental and natural beauty these songs reference. The daylily on the cover of the album was picked from the land the shack is built upon - there’s a connection between the physical natural setting and the creative work itself, intertwined and natural bloom..."

Artist : The Dead Tongues

Label : Psychic Hotline

CAT No : PSY044