AN EVENING REDNESS will release their stunning self-titled debut full-length on February 25th via Transylvanian Recordings.
AN EVENING REDNESS
is parched desert drone doom and the sound of thunder over the
mountains. Evoking the hallucinatory clarity of the alkali plains and
the biblical violence of its literary namesake, the collective bursts
from obscurity with a fusion of sounds that seem incompatible on paper
but prove blindingly innovative in action.
Deeply introspective and evoking hallucinatory darkness, AN EVENING REDNESS'
self-titled debut is the newest release from Brandon Elkins. Composed,
arranged, and produced by Elkins, the offering is a masterwork of
diverse ambient doom and post-ambient composition, with the minimalism
of Earth contrasted with passages that wouldn’t feel out of place on
Jesu’s Opiate Sun.
An ensemble of musical talents including vocalist Bridget Bellavia
(BLKTXXTH, Piggy Black Cross), guest soloist Brendan Sloan (Convulsing),
and session drummer Ryan Jewell (Riley Walker and many others) serve to
underscore the drama and focused production contained within the
album's six tracks.
What
ties the whole album together is an atmosphere that feels spiritually
closer to a film score than what you’d expect from a solo record. Notes
Elkins, “I wanted to make music that sounds like how Blood Meridian
reads. Lonely, high plains insanity, sudden bursts of violence, longing
melodies, ambient isolation.” Elkins' work has always been hard to pin
down, but this feels like a culmination of not only the best elements of
his many projects - but the compositional mastery that can only come
from decades of refined craft. With the intensity of modern doom masters
like Bell Witch and the emotional and musical dexterity of Neko Case at
peak powers.
In
advance of the record’s release, today the band unveils their first
single "Mesa Skyline,” now playing at Invisible Oranges. Notes Elkins of
the track, “‘Mesa Skyline’ begins the tale: a lonesome man sat down
next to a withering fire, out among the salt and sage of the Western
desert, waiting to die. He sleeps, but instead of the death he longs
for, he awakens into a world of biblical violence and a blazing storm of
hallucinatory revelation on the horizon."
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