"Honeychurch"
Widowspeak
Captured Tracks
Fresh off the release of their critically-acclaimed fifth album, "Plum," Widowspeak welcome the new year with "Honeychurch," a brand new digital EP out Jan. 22. Like the 17th-century tile on its cover, "Honeychurch" is a repurposed artifact. Its title, a nod to E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View," was originally a working title for "Plum" -- an album noted and praised by Pitchfork for its "glowing synths and lyrics about labor and death."
Recorded at their apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y. and mixed and mastered by Jamie Harley (The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mogwai), Widowspeak's new collection delivers homespun intimations with polished precision. The questions posed on "Plum" still reverberate, and "Honeychurch" leaves space for us to hear them better.
"In Ferneaux"
Blanck Mass
Sacred Bones
Blanck Mass -- the solo electronic project of British musician Benjamin John Power -- announces his new album, "In Ferneaux," out Feb. 26. It's the follow-up to 2019's "Animated Violence Mild," and explores pain in motion, building audio-spatial chambers of experience and memory.
Using an archive of field recordings from a decade of global travels, isolation gave Blanck Mass an opportunity to make connections in a moment when being together is impossible. The record is divided into two long-form journeys that gather the memories of being with now-distant others through the composition of a nostalgic travelogue. The journeys are haunted with the vestiges of voices, places and sensations.
