Darwin Falls, by Fawn Limbs

Darwin Falls

by Fawn Limbs

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Lorenzo A mean bastard of experimental and truly unique grinding mathcore / mathy grindcore combined with an immersive spoken word narrative. Quite unlike anything to come out recently (if ever), this album gets disorienting at points as it jostles between the two sonic worlds that burn at each end of the band's reach.

Not to be one dimensional, there are moments of doom, sludge, and even a bit of American folk that push this further beyond easy listening and genre classification.

sinisetkimallus The present compositions manage to weave a tapestry in which it is quite easy to get lost. The experience is akin to a nightmare, a lucid dream, a wild LSD trip, and a fight for survival all spun together in a moment of brilliant insanity as one hulking mammoth which you must allow to ram you down.

www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/fawn-limbs/darwin-falls/ Favorite track: Caesura.

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	1.	Nesting Lumens 06:12
	2.	Wound Hiss 06:32
	3.	Dead Horse Cavern 03:30
	4.	Noose Gestures 03:03
	5.	Caesura 02:30
	6.	Twitching, Lapsing 05:11
	7.	Dissolver 07:38

about

Fawn Limbs have made a name for themselves by a musical concoction uniting elements from mathcore, grindcore, and noisy electronics, with the result having been a uniquely violent but detailed barrack of sound. The band has always cherished an experimental approach to the idea of music, not fearing stepping outside of their comfort zones repeatedly in the process. A good example of this ingrained aesthetic is their third EP 'Thrum' from 2018 which nearly abandoned all of the band’s custom traits, focusing on atmosphere by means of doom-oriented pace, structured electronics, partly improvised Western-flavoured guitars, and having a story uniting fact and fiction on top of it all, narrated by the band’s drummer Lee Fisher. Now, three years later, 'Darwin Falls' picks up from where that particular EP left off.

While being a sequel of sorts to 'Thrum' by ethos, 'Darwin Falls' extends beyond that particular sonic realm, utilizing the familiar, chaotic and grinding mathcore elements to its mien, all the while adding flavours from doom, post-metal, sludge, and folk music. 'Darwin Falls' is a vortex of tonal tendencies molten into one coherent entity, where all the mentioned, musical aspects seamlessly blend together, forming something that no longer can not be expressed via genre tags or standard categorizations. 'Darwin Falls 'simply sounds like Fawn Limbs, and vice versa. That’s all there is to it, when it comes to force-fed molds and definitions.

Fawn Limbs’ select previous releases have featured one or few guest vocalists, but this time around, there is none, not to the pevious extent at least. Instead, in order to push the envelope more than before, the band invited renowned classical musicians from a global scope to provide additional depth to their newfound self. These musicians, based wherever from New Zealand to Switzerland and from UK to Colombia, introduce entirely a new kind of flavour to Fawn Limbs’ output, with varying instrumentation including but not limited to viola, oboe, saxophone, electric cello, trombone, trumpets, and mellotron, for an example. The outcome is something, that for better or worse, seems to lack competition in the current, worldwide musical climate.

credits

released September 6, 2021

Eeli Helin – Vocals/Guitars/Noise
Lee Fisher – Drums/Narration
Samuel Smith – Bass

Stéphane Babey – Electric cello
David Burke – Trombone
Michael Frei – Piano/Wurlitzer/MikroKorg/Mellotron/Voice
Hanna Ott – Oboe
Philippe Simon – Trumpet
Richard Spencer – Viola
Iván Zapata – Saxophone

Artworks by Eeli Helin
Layouts (vinyl) by Paul Pavlovich

Mixed and mastered by Samuel Vaney at Lead & Sulfur studio

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WVR is a label based in Mannheim, Germany, which has been founded in 2012 by the idea of releasing limited runs of tapes but in the meantime is aiming to mostly release records on vinyl.

We don’t care about genres. Most important points: personal relation towards the music and authenticity. Keywords may be: dark, slow, fast, violent, heavy, dreamy, ambient, drone, unconventional, unclichéd. ... more

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