New Release: Penance Stare - Solanaceae (CVC011) Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

Penance Stare

Solanaceae

(CVC011)

Limited Edition cassette and digital download

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Crow Versus Crow is honoured to be able to present, Solanaceae, the second full-length record from Penance Stare, the Gateshead (UK)-based project of songwriter Esmé Louise Newman. Following the much-lauded Scrying (2018) and House of Bastet EP (2017) cassettes, this bleak and haunted recording captures Penance Stare at its most fully-realised thus far.

Previously known for her work in Melting, Commiserations, and Etai Keshiki, among many others, Esmé has spent the last two years deep in sonic exploration, developing an incredibly rich sound that, “whips together atmospheric black metal with darkwave, shoegaze, stormy ambient, and witch house… as soothing as it is intense” (Kim Kelly, Noisey).

Beautifully mastered by Stephen Bishop (Opal Tapes, Basic House, Drunk in Hell), Solanaceae deals lyrically with themes of trauma, illness, ageing, neglect and regret, and is rendered with a sonic palette of heavy drum machine rhythms, degraded chamber music passages, low fidelity guitar fuzz and blurred out vocals.

With blatant disregard for the oft-perceived sanctity of aesthetic dogma, Penance Stare draws voraciously from a wealth of seemingly disparate musical sources, twisting the gothic ephemeral grandeur of Cocteau Twins, the blunt mass of industrial noise, the layered textural intricacy of ‘Loveless’ and the raw, razor thin brutality of contemporary Black Metal, to form distinctly articulate works of personal expression.

Solanaceae is released as a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered, on-body printed aged bronzed cassettes, housed in a heavyweight recycled card sleeve with full-colour artwork by Crow Versus Crow. A digital download is also available.

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Tape £6 / Digital £4

Available now via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

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The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show #33

Here it is again... a selection of tracks from records that have stuck themselves to me, for whatever reason, over the last couple of weeks between the recording of episodes. This week features a more guitar-orientated music than the last episode (or two), a few excellent contemporary UK based artists, a dipped toe into the murky (and inconsistent in quality) Black Metal pool, a couple of remixes and reworkings here and there, a song from a man in films, a new old Lungfish song and a new old Can song.

If you are interested in any of the artists featured in this weeks episode the please support them by purchasing their records and attending their shows where possible.

This episode originally aired on 96.7 Phoenix FM (Calderdale) on Sunday 24th June between 6 and 8pm.

Tracklisting

1. Blood Sport – Mayan Dance (Journal No.4 / Audacious Art Experiment)

2. Three Trapped Tigers – Drebin Inspired by Drebin (Juffage Rehaul) (Remix Or Die / Blood and Biscuits)

3. Cave – On The Rise (Neverendless / Drag City)

4. Nikki Louder – Sidewalk (S/T / Rnka Rnka)

5. Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Now Lift The Outer Fingers (A / Ecstatic Peace!)

6. Nikki Louder – Fake A Ghost Remixed (S/T / Rnka Rnka)

7. Go Tell The Women – Put It Back In (Pognophile / Bandcamp Release)

8 Lungfish – I Will Walk Between You (A.C.R 1999 / Dischord)

9. NAH – Copwatch (Tapefuck / Ranch Records)

10. Ravachol – A Brief Allegory Of Wasted Time (The Revolution of Everyday Life / Bandcamp Release)

11. YamaDudes – That’s A Pretty Fucking Big Lake You Got There, Africa (by Gang Wizards) (DBA100 / Death Bomb Arc)

12. Locrian – The Columnless Arcade (Territories / Bloodlust!, Small Doses, At War With False Noise, Small Doses)

13. Skagos – The Drums Pound Every Night In A Glorious Celebration of Life (Ast / Eternal Warfare)

14.  Xasthur – Karma/Death (Portal of Sorrow / Disharmonic Variations)

15. Nathan Bell – Living For The Dead (Colours / Lancashire and Somerset)

16. Josef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch – Continuation  of the Last Judgement (Concerning The Entrance Into Eternity / Important Records)

17. Can – Dead Pigeon Suite (The Lost Tapes / Mute)

18. Broken Shoulder – Minoh (The Tape of Disquiet / Tape Your Mouth)

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