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Violets , the long awaited follow up to Twine's self-titled debut, is a foray into a haunting and expansive cinematic world. With it's mix of languid guitar work, emotive, saturated melodic textures, noises and static, field recordings and found sounds including a diverse collection of variously recorded human voices (highly emotional phone conversations between family members, an anti-war rally, CB broadcasting truck-drivers, answering machine messages as well as vocal contributions from Gail Schadt and Cranes' Alison Shaw) the effect achieved is ominous, hinting at decay and transformation. Its expansive, shadowy soundscapes have a distinctly American ambience- like the soundtrack to some bleak American Gothic cult-favorite that has yet to be filmed. But Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder while taking us on this tour, will do no hand-holding; it is all simply laid out before us, beauty and wreckage both.

"one of the year's most haunting releases, a collection of hallucinatory soundscapes [and] psychedelic ambience"
- Textura [full review here]

Now available as an exclusive pre-release at The Ghostly Store, and available June 17th on limited CD Digipak.

Download: Twine - Disconnected (edit) from Violets

Download: Twine - Girl Song from Twine