Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
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Hit and miss and somewhat difficult to get in to. Also, this fucking cover. 
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| Artist: | Eartheater |
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| Genres: | Avant-Folk, Chamber Folk Electroacoustic, Folktronica, Glitch, Psychedelic Folk |
| Released: | 2020 |
| Type: | Album |
| Label: | PAN |
| Link: | Bandcamp |
Composed, produced, and arranged by Eartheater alone, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin draws a path back to the primordial lava lake from which she first emerged, as it also testifies to the reincarnating resurrections the project has undergone over its first full decade of existence. While the album renews her focus on guitar performance and legible structure, Eartheater balances the unabashed prettiness of acoustic harmonic songs with the dissonant gestural embroidery of oblique instrumentals. Having fallen back in love with the idioms that first captivated her, she worked to crack open the techniques that had fossilized inside of her, while still seeking to apply the electro-alchemical knowledge she picked up along her journey. The result of a laborious revival in fire, Phoenix recontextualizes Eartheater’s combinatorial approach to production within her most confident abstractions, adjacent to some of her most direct songs to date....
Eartheater composed and workshopped most of Phoenix over a ten-week artist residency (FUGA) in Zaragoza, Spain, housed in a sprawling, cubic glass facility that looked out over wildflower-flecked mountains. Following an intensive period of recording and touring, the residency provided her with an unprecedented period of... more
released October 2, 2020
Eartheater composed and workshopped most of Phoenix over a ten-week artist residency (FUGA) in Zaragoza, Spain, housed in a sprawling, cubic glass facility that looked out over wildflower-flecked mountains. Following an intensive period of recording and touring, the residency provided her with an unprecedented period of... more
released October 2, 2020
Editions:
2020
Original Release
PAN
| PAN 112
| Digital/Vinyl
| 01. | Airborne Ashes | (3:26) | |
| 02. | Metallic Taste of Patience | (3:50) | |
| 03. | Below the Clavicle | (3:58) | |
| 04. | Burning Feather | (1:25) | |
| 05. | How to Fight | (3:31) | |
| 06. | Kiss of the Phoenix | (3:03) | |
| 07. | Volcano | (4:35) | |
| 08. | Fantasy Collision | (4:38) | |
| 09. | Mercurial Nerve | (2:15) | |
| 10. | Goodbye Diamond | (1:28) | |
| 11. | Bringing Me Back | (5:19) | |
| 12. | Diamond in the Bedrock | (4:13) | |
| 13. | Faith Consuming Hope | (4:50) |