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With gliding viola & choral forces, Only Darkness Now is a more alive, peopled landscape than its predecessor. Moods remain contemplative, concerned with vivid, historical netherworlds & torments – we see this in extended album centrepiece 'Behind the Spiderweb Gate' and in 'In Solitude I Will Fade Away'. However despite its title Only Darkness now has a brighter expanse:

Cotton layers viola, chimes & Omnichord - an electrical ghost-like medieval drone, alongside percussion, harmonium, piano & voice. This is a confident record, lifting Shirt of Lace by medieval revivalist Dorothy Carter, from Celtic lament to cathedral like grandeur.

Sounds like: Max Richter. Tony Conrad. The Unthanks. Laura Cannell.

TRACK LISTING

Behind The Spiderweb Gates
In Solitude I Will Fade Away
How My Heart Bled In Bleeding Heart Yard
The Hill Was Hollow
Shirt Of Lace