Thought this might be of interest.... full track previews at Last FM....
TO BLACKEN THE PAGES fifth CD, NORTH, is to be released on 9 February 2009.
Building on from To Blacken the Pages relentless creative output, NORTH sees the band step forward in a major way significantly progressing the development of their sound. NORTH is TBTPs most ferocious work to date, focusing on the dynamics of pure guitar overdriven sounds, while also witnessing a greater space and dynamic in the work.
Give to the sea sees McAree singing for the first time on a TBTP release, relaying a tender fear of the ocean, while backed up by a furious and ever rising swell of guitars. 'To be Dead', the title inspired by a Patrick Kavanagh poem, sees a deep drum machine and crushing bass knock out a deep pulse in the background while the guitars lock head to head in a 15 minute exploration of screaming harmonics, while 'I am screes on her escarpments' features a title borrowed from another Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. 'Night Drive' begins the ride out on this intense record, slowing the pace down but never once letting go of the ferocity within. Locked within this cacophony of noise is a beauty and tenderness which at once compliments and negates the other.
Julian Cope described TBTP's music as 'This is true Death Music and its good for you, aching music worthy of someones funeral and a dead cert to play that role sometime in the future. I enthusiastically recommend you bathe your melted plastic brain in such sonick goo, undertaking the task with a zealots thoroughnesse... Yes, this music is comparable in some ways to the enormous sounds unleashes by Nadja, Urthona, Spaceship, and their solitary ilk, but the space and periods of relative inactivity contained within the music of To Blacken The Pages makes this an unearthly noise all its own.'
3 TRACKS OFF 'NORTH' NOW AVAILABLE FOR FULL PREVIEW AT LAST FM - LINK BELOW - AND FREE STUFF! The track 'Trek In' off the 'A Semblance...' record is available for free download.
To celebrate the release TBTP will be launching a new video on their website on Sunday 8 February.
www.toblackenthepages.com
http://www.last.fm/music/To+Blacken+the+Pages
TO BLACKEN THE PAGES fifth CD, NORTH, is to be released on 9 February 2009.
Building on from To Blacken the Pages relentless creative output, NORTH sees the band step forward in a major way significantly progressing the development of their sound. NORTH is TBTPs most ferocious work to date, focusing on the dynamics of pure guitar overdriven sounds, while also witnessing a greater space and dynamic in the work.
Give to the sea sees McAree singing for the first time on a TBTP release, relaying a tender fear of the ocean, while backed up by a furious and ever rising swell of guitars. 'To be Dead', the title inspired by a Patrick Kavanagh poem, sees a deep drum machine and crushing bass knock out a deep pulse in the background while the guitars lock head to head in a 15 minute exploration of screaming harmonics, while 'I am screes on her escarpments' features a title borrowed from another Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. 'Night Drive' begins the ride out on this intense record, slowing the pace down but never once letting go of the ferocity within. Locked within this cacophony of noise is a beauty and tenderness which at once compliments and negates the other.
Julian Cope described TBTP's music as 'This is true Death Music and its good for you, aching music worthy of someones funeral and a dead cert to play that role sometime in the future. I enthusiastically recommend you bathe your melted plastic brain in such sonick goo, undertaking the task with a zealots thoroughnesse... Yes, this music is comparable in some ways to the enormous sounds unleashes by Nadja, Urthona, Spaceship, and their solitary ilk, but the space and periods of relative inactivity contained within the music of To Blacken The Pages makes this an unearthly noise all its own.'
3 TRACKS OFF 'NORTH' NOW AVAILABLE FOR FULL PREVIEW AT LAST FM - LINK BELOW - AND FREE STUFF! The track 'Trek In' off the 'A Semblance...' record is available for free download.
To celebrate the release TBTP will be launching a new video on their website on Sunday 8 February.
www.toblackenthepages.com
http://www.last.fm/music/To+Blacken+the+Pages
