Richard Skelton - These Charms ... Vinyl LP 2020

Track Listing

1. The Viscid Substance
2. Against All Tendernesses Of The Eyes
3. For Either Deadened or Undeadened
4. For The Application of Fire
5. For An Inward Wound
6. For A Swarthened Body
7. Against Bite and Rend of Snake
8. For All Cleansings
9. On Each Of the Six Fives of the Moon

With the album, Skelton has abandoned acoustic instrumentation altogether to map out a new territory of buzzing sine tones and square waves, immersed in shimmering clouds of distortion and suspended over landscapes of thrumming bass. The result is a new and transcendental experience: while the key themes of Skelton's music remain - stark and lonely geographies, ancient myths buried deep within the land, slow-moving glacial evolution - we are transported to a darker and more mechanical place.