The Laughing Shadow (2022)
https://deadsounds.bandcamp.com/track/the-cowboy
https://www.facebook.com/DEADAustralia
https://www.instagram.com/dead_sounds/
#Progressive #Doom_Stoner #Heavy_Psych
Messages From the Artists:
This album is the first time we removed our tongues from
our collective cheek for a moment. We used it to process our
grief and to deal with the uncertainty and anguish of
lockdowns. While writing it we lost friends and family to the
virus, suicide and more. For the most part funerals or
gatherings of any kind were not possible. I clung onto this
music like a kid does to their teddy.
As a band who toured nonstop for 10 years it hit hard
suddenly not being able to do what we love most. We were
determined to make something positive from it.
The opening track is the oldest song we have – written some
years before we formed DEAD. We decided to build an album
around this song that would be one long form piece made up
of smaller “scenes”. We pretended we had an orchestra.
We wrote the bulk of it in Alex’s barn/recording studio in
Campbells Creek – masked up, at opposite ends of the room.
We’ve never gone so long without hugging each other.
Our friend Mike Deslandes recorded it in that same barn – it
felt significant to be able to do that. We did one take of
each scene, in order and the warts are very much left in
there for your benefit. The sounds you hear are the sounds of
the instruments in that space.
I mixed the record with Mike at his house. I’m grateful we
had him working with us. Every part of the process had a
different kind of weight to it than before. I wanted it to be
over and to never end at the same time. At some point I told
Jace that I might have to never play these songs again.
So, like a million other bands this is our pandemic
album.
Jem – Drums
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CD By: Forbidden Place Records
https://forbiddenplacerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/forbiddenplacerecords/
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Vinyl by: Wantage USA
https://wantageusa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/WantageUSA
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01 – Side A 00:00
The Cowboy
Riding Shadows
Death
Light, Flicker, Dark
02 – Side B 20:06
Disgraced Former Detective/Silence
The Cracking Facade
Bastard Return
The Laughing Shadow
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Jace: Basses/Guitars
Jem: Drums/Metal Percussion
With: Jenny Divers: Saxophone
Recording and Mixing: Mike Deslandes
(Tropical Fuck Storm/Springtime/Cosmic
Psychos/YLVA)
Mastering: Lachlan Carrick
All art by the band
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