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e.p. hall // "Mommy Crow"

Catalogue #IFFTCD008 // Release Date: 2009.11.24 // Format: CD

Mommy Crow

e.p. hall's first full-length release shows startling confidence and directness. The collision of soaring vocals, beautifully dark production and cryptic, poetic lyrics produces a carrion-feast of songs of foreboding, vulnerability and flesh-and-bone mortality.

e.p.'s voice is truly haunting - never saccharine or indulging in childish rage, but never world-weary either. She ranges easily between deep existential unease and that of a survivor, wounded but unbowed by life's outrages.

The instrumentation is creative, menacing - what New Weird America should be but usually isn't. Buzzing synths complement strummed guitar and overdriven voice, windchimes swirl behind simple fingerpicking, electronic noise attacks stark vocals.

Stand-out songs are the suprisingly rocky opening track "The Emperor's Note", the moving "The Secrets Change..." and the chilling "Churchyard". But with songs this personal, each listener will have their own favourites.

Tracklisting:

  1. The Emperor's Note
  2. Mommy Crow
  3. Gone Are The Thoughts Of Sparrows
  4. The Shade
  5. Churchyard
  6. (Go The Sun Down)
  7. Water Tower
  8. The White Bird, In Springtime, Will Find You
  9. The Secrets Change, They Melt And Freeze
  10. (Chase Scene Through The Silent Forest)
  11. Ladders And Mirrors
  12. (Analysis Of Variance)

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