JDMP
I am not usually given towards instrumental stuff like post-rock, but I do really dig this. It is heavy as could be, complex, and really just enjoyable.
slayer5150
Love the opening - just awesome. Another killer album from the local lads. Can't wait for the album launch gig! \m/
Favorite track: Sudden Peril.
Inspired by the sounds, intensity, emotion and life-cycles of the bush of the south-west of Australia, Oscillating Forest is a reconstruction of the harsh and varied landscape in audio form. As with the sounds and seasons of nature, the textures and tones captured here oscillate, pulse and modulate in a way that is not linear, predictable or safe; Tangled Thoughts of Leaving guides the listener through a terrain where danger and beauty are found and contrasted around every turn.
Tangled Thoughts of Leaving composed the album in the mould of an hour-long live set - a free flowing piece of music, ignoring the constraints of standalone songs and traditional structures. Instead, each track is complementary to what comes before and after it, a constant transfer of searing energy and emotion, a cycle of constantly building and destroying itself.
TToL recorded Oscillating Forest in 2021 and 2022 at Studio Sleepwalker’s Dread in North Dandalup, Western Australia. This was a period of intense inspiration for the band, the first album written with Gracie Smith on drums - and second with Paul Briggs on guitar. There is a telling shift in energy and dynamics captured here - the chemistry and cohesion between Smith, Briggs and founding members Ron Pollard and Luke Pollard presented the opportunity to push further down the path of improvisation than previously captured on other Tangled records. Large swathes of the album were recorded live, with sections of improvisation punctuated by more purposefully layered movements.
The artwork by South African artist Caitlin Mkhasibe further explores these themes of chaotic energy and space in the form of a conceptual view of Oscillating Forest, marked in map form. The lines, contours, terrains, textures, detail and intersections of trails echo the intertwining tracks of the record.
credits
released August 4, 2023
Oscillating Forest by Tangled Thoughts of Leaving
Ron Pollard - Piano, Synth
Gracie Smith - Drums, Trinkets
Paul Briggs - Guitar, Flute, Recorder
Luke Pollard - Bass
Produced & Mixed by Ron Pollard at Studio Sleepwalker’s Dread.
Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio.
Recorded in 2021 & 2022 at Studio Sleepwalker’s Dread on Pindjarup Noongar Boodjar - except for
some piano on Sudden Peril & Twin Snakes and all piano on The Mantle, that was recorded
at Rebecca’s Piano Parlour, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, in April 2022.
Artwork by Caitlin Mkhasibe.
Thanks to: Phil & Kathy Pollard, Maria and Ryker, Isabel and Francisco, Nat Pollard, Rebecca Hills, Caitlin Mkhasibe,
Simon Struthers, Rhonda & John, Lenny, Maisey's, Lake family, Mitchell Woodblock, Himmy, Muzj & Dadager,
Hayley Moore, Mike Solo, Maarten Lammers, Luc & Wout at Dunk!, RTRFM.
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This is one of the most emotive and cinematic albums I've ever heard, and my own personal album of the year at time of writing. We Lost The Sea have gone above and beyond what I thought they were capable of. Zachary Wattus
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The most austere Russian Circles release yet. But in restraint these tracks find new levels of heavy. Nowhere is this more evident than the closing of the third track, "Gnosis". That shit is savage. Absolutely primal. rettisawesome
This experimental rock trio from Cornwall bring together cresting waves of dreamy guitar noise with a sense of propulsive motion. Bandcamp... New & Notable Oct 26, 2021