Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time (LP, Album) (M / M) – Dig Vinyl Limited Time

Media Condition: Mint (M) Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)brand new, still sealedRelease NotesTracklisting:1.You From The Local Family? 18:262.The Reason You Don’t Sleep Is The Words 18:123.Hymns of Mud 18:504.Narrowing Of The Days 18:48Country: UK”Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that references Phill Niblock, C.C Hennix and La Monte Young, as well as cosmic psych explorers like Hototogisu, The Skaters and Double Leopards. Tongue Depressor’s ‘Burnish’ was quietly one of 2022’s most outstanding releases – a light-headed ritual that summed up so much of the year’s nascent trends. Xenharmonic tunings, tape-dubbed organ drones, cautious non-repeating mathematical bell patterns, all of it rolled into a blur of sonorous future-ancient experimentation. ‘Bones For Time’ is a different proposition; picking up where its predecessor left off in some respects, but pulling everything out into syrupy long-form, shifting the focus from elemental intrigue to dizzying tape textures and consciousness-expanding harmonies. The album is split into four 20-minute sides, each one investigating a separate instrumental fixation or process; the connecting thread is Rowden and Birdsey’s discrete philosophical outlook, which they impress on each single-take expression, whether they’re losing bowed strings in saturated fuzz, or pulling metallic clangs through fluttering tape heads. Importantly, none of it is overdone…released February 10, 2023 Zach Rowden: double bass, tape loops Henry Birdsey: pedal steel, bagpipes, harmonium, cello Recorded and mixed at Meridian HQ 2021-2022 Mastering: Giueseppe Lelasi Photographs: Dylan Hausthor Layout: Alin Cinca