These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound, by Richard Skelton

These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound

by Richard Skelton

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mitgui I'm going to keep changing my mind because this is a gorgeous, powerful album full of favorite tracks. Favorite track: For The Application of Fire.

ES A stunning artist, both literary and aurally. These soundscapes scratch the flesh and let the warm blood cool under layers of time encased in a geology of nature moving, hidden, through thresholds clouded to the human eye. There are strong magics flowing through these rhythms like silver waters plunging towards the moon.

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1.	The Viscid Substance 02:10	buy track
2.	Against All Tendernesses of the Eyes 06:33	buy track
3.	For Either Deadened or Undeadened 08:35	buy track
4.	For The Application of Fire 06:52	buy track
5.	For An Inward Wound 09:30	buy track
6.	For A Swarthened Body 10:56	buy track
7.	Against Bite and Rend of Snake 07:03	buy track
8.	For All Cleansings 06:32	buy track
9.	On Each of the Six Fives of the Moon 10:59	buy track

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"Skelton’s unique, all-enveloping soundworld [is] a must-visit destination"
Q Magazine

"Digging through strata of earth and vibration, an aural archaeology that could be termed land music"
The Wire Magazine

Seminal British experimental musician Richard Skelton joins Phantom Limb for the release of stunning new album These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound, his first for the label, first on vinyl in over a decade, and a standout record in his own catalogue.

Over the past sixteen years, Richard Skelton has developed a signature sound, often comprised of strings, piano and other acoustic instrumentation. Since 2013 he has increasingly buried these organic sources in layers of detritus and static. The process, as he articulates it, is to use signal-degradation as a means of reflecting the processes of decay and transformation in the natural world. His music has been placed alongside giants of experimental music, such as Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Stars Of The Lid, William Basinski.

With new album These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound, however, 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. The intensity and sound design here are more akin to quasi-industrial, abandoned-factory sonics than to earthy, organic tones of earlier Richard Skelton albums. Abul Mogard and Alessandro Cortini could be considered peers now, just as much as Eno and Basinski had been before.

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released September 25, 2020

All music by Richard Skelton
Mastered by Alyn Sclosa

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