Like A Strange Matador, by Burn Into Sleep

Like A Strange Matador

by Burn Into Sleep

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1.	High Priestess 02:38	buy track
2.	Breath In Me 05:57	buy track
3.	Figure of Eight 06:13	buy track
4.	Diseased Mind 07:48	buy track
5.	Kamikaze for Love 05:18	buy track
6.	Alert & High 06:18	buy track
7.	Diseased Mind II 08:18	buy track

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Like moonlight playing on an ocean tide, Burn Into Sleep’s first record shimmers in the darkness with a perilous beauty. The core duo of David McLean and poet Lauren Bolger having been working with each other in various contexts since 2014, sharing the stage in Bolger’s iconoclastic no-wave band Locean, in a sorely missed free jazz trio with percussionist Pascal Nichols, guesting with Polish avant-garde collective Shepherd of Cats and Dream Skills of NYC and were both handpicked to join Thurston Moore’s group during his residency at Islington Mill in 2018. But the duo remains the pair’s most enduring collaboration, with McLean often accompanying Bolger’s readings on either blazing saxophone or on murky guitar, reacting in real time to her award-winning poetry. Long undocumented, the duo decided to finally record in late 2019, recruiting Manchester’s most in demand jazz drummer, Johnny Hunter, to capture 8 songs live and completely improvised. Album centre piece ‘Diseased Mind’ was adapted from a small vocal motif Lauren had written to accompany her poem. The first appearance of the song simmers with a tragic malice, McLean’s guitar ringing out like a doomed harpsichord and Hunter’s drums ploughing a funeral march, guiding Bolger’s bruised lamentations. The trio extrapolate on the song’s melodic themes again in the album’s closing track, but played with the intention of destroying its very foundations, shards of distorted guitar crumble against stuttering, bombastic percussion as Bolger croons variations on the lyrics. ‘Figure of Eight’ and ‘Alert and High’ chart a similar terrain, both extended explorations in broken song writing that hold a collapsing beauty. ‘Kamikaze for Love’ is the albums most singular track. A redacted torch song boiled down to just drums and voice, Hunter and Bolger conjure a playfully dark paean to the jazz ballad with no other instrumentation needed. For all the albums gloom, the opening 2 songs are decidedly more playful, written off the cuff at Bolger’s request to create an instant ‘pop song’. The trio’s first attempt was ‘Breath In Me’, which moves with a slowcore grace and follows a traditional verse-chorus structure. Wanting to capture something more up-tempo, ‘High Priestess’ barrelled out of the trio. Over lockdown, McLean began to add bass, keys and synths to the more song orientated cuts of the record, embellishing the latent lounge properties in ‘Breath In Me’ and adding a dark-wave sheen to ‘High Priestess’ with 90’s synth pads. Even with these additions, which root the embellished tracks in a more traditional song form, the character of the record remains; dark, dangerous and roughly held together. It shows a newfound maturity in McLean and Bolger’s continued collaboration; a shift away from free improvisation to something more narrowed in focus, but still formlessly strange and beautiful.

credits

released April 9, 2022

Lauren Bolger - Voice
Johnny Hunter - Drums
David McLean - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards

Recorded live by Connor Haynes
Additional overdubs recorded by David McLean
Mixed by David McLean
Mastered by Dirk Serries
Graphic design by Lewis McLean

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Tombed Visions is a Manchester based cassette label specialising in improvisation, ambient music, experimental electronics and noir aesthetics and aims to showcase the fringes of contemporary independent music. All releases are limited edition and packaged with care, combining a love of graphic design, photography, typography with the wondrous sounds released. ... more

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