From above,
Holden
Speak
Your mind aches. It sulks and it sinks. The light peaked.
You sink and you swim—fluid, weightless and free.
Tracing the lights.
Praise the sky. (praise)
No truth as sure as my discontent
We've spent years in here.
Standing still. Steeped; in the mouth of salvation.
Armies in white—sucking the sin out of me.
That light, breached.
about
Sunshine/Tracing Light is a split LP by Cokegoat and Barren Heir.
The album consists of the four-part "Sunshine" by Cokegoat and
two-part "Tracing Light" by Barren Heir.
The official follow-up to their 2016 debut release Tired Turns, Tracing Light is an experimental effort that defines their bleak brand of sludge/doom. Clocking in at over twenty minutes, this two-part track is a genre-bending opus that draws its influence across the spectrum, from blues and psychedelic to hardcore and black metal. Tracing Light displays diverse styles of play ranging from the smooth and swanky to the primitive and disparaging, all strung-together and delivered at a decibel level somewhere between obnoxious and nauseating.
credits
released June 29, 2018
Barren Heir is: Nick LaRocco (drums), Eddie Limperis (bass, vocals) and David Kirsch (guitars). Additional musicians on Tracing Light: Jeremiah Klinger (synthesizers). Cokegoat is: Tim Baldwin (bass), Chase Bentley (guitar, vocals), Rebekah Brown (synths, vocals),
Ed Nudd (guitar), Jordan Schultz (drums) and Jeff Wojtysiak (guitar, vocals). Additional musicians on Sunshine: Jeremiah Klinger (synthesizers), Andy Nelson (guitar) and Stephen Reichelt (double bass, words and voice). All music recorded at Bricktop Recording [Tracing Light: engineered, produced and mixed by Pete Grossmann. Sunshine: engineered, mixed and sort of produced by Andy Nelson] and mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago, Illinois. Artwork and design by Eddie Limperis.
supported by 7 fans who also own “Sunshine/Tracing Light”
This album is an absolute banger. The riffs are especially groovy this time, the vocals are amazing, and the overall thing is supercatchy. If I'd have to list one downside, it's that the mix is so bass-heavy that the sound only truely comes into it's right when listened on good headphones or extremely good speakers. On anything less it can sound like the bass drowns the rest of the music out. 9/10 Buzzario
supported by 6 fans who also own “Sunshine/Tracing Light”
this their most solid release to date, there other records are all insanely brilliant, you should buy them if you enjoy this for sure. keep kicking ass and putting some of the best sludge this decade. Ryan Graham
supported by 5 fans who also own “Sunshine/Tracing Light”
For some reason, what I previewed and the real songs was somewhat different - maybe because of the cover art?
But I definitely don't regret something more spacial than expected. The recent Ocean drifting in space. frankwurst
The latest from this one-man sludge metal project from Baltimore is discordant, spacious, and as heavy as a full group could ever be. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 12, 2019