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Six Organs of Admittance to Release Companion Rises Feb. 21; New Song & Video Announcement Streaming

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I don’t know if I’m going to do a 2020 Most Anticipated Albums list. I didn’t for 2019 and it felt like a huge weight off my shoulders. And those things, honestly, are usually at least 89 percent bullshit anyway, because there are like three albums announced for past March when they’re being written and the rest of the post is like, “Duh, maybe we’ll get a new Tool album,” or whatever it is that people are waiting for and will click on. Wow. I think I might’ve just talked myself out of it (again). Sweet.

But anyway, if I was going to do that kind of list, the Feb. 21 release of Six Organs of Admittance‘s upcoming long-player, Companion Rises, would most certainly be on it. True, I’m a nerd for the long-running Ben Chasny-led project generally, but adding interest here is the fact that Chasny made the whole thing on his own, where other recent outings have involved a variety of players to the degree that at one point Six Organs was touring as a full band. A more purely solo vibe, even with arrangements done in layers, recalls earlier albums, and well, I like those albums, so mark me down as on board for this one when it comes down the line.

That’s all. Don’t expect that list, but expect me to write a silly gushing review just the same for this album sometime after I’m fortunate enough to hear it.

From the PR wire:

six organs of admittance companion rises

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM COMPANION RISES OUT VIA DRAG CITY, FEBRUARY 21ST 2020

Six Organs of Admittance is back with a new record, new techniques in sound generation, and a new energy. Arriving three years after Burning the Threshold, Companion Rises has a driving force only hinted at previously. Due out on Drag City on February 21st 2020.

Methodologically, Companion Rises sometimes recalls the early-mid lo-fi Six Organs records, with digital processes substituting for the analog techniques of yore and, instead of Ben Chasny’s hand percussion overdubs, algorithmic programs generating rhythms. Ben Chasny created all sounds and programs, all the recording and mixed the entire record, also like some earlier ones – but don’t mistake this for a simplistic return to an older sound. Just one listen makes it clear that this new Six Organs of Admittance release is entirely in the present.

Sonically, the songs are bursting with ideas, harmonically rich, gorgeously arranged; utilising synthesizer and guitar distortion for unique colouring effects while crafting contrasting versions of the song within itself, overlaying electric and acoustic treatments that interlock like two shards to form a single key. The rush of excitement is palpable, track after track.

Thematically, Companion Rises navigates a similar Stellar-Gnosticism as 2012’s Ascent, while exploring a completely different set of stories. Whereas Ascent was locked into a narrative concerning a sentient Jupiter, Companion Rises presents a handful of folk-tales whose topics span in scope from panspermia to specific constellations, all written in a way that eschews old new age presentation tropes and embraces the now. One thinks of Octavio Paz’s oft-used metaphor of the concentric circle, as Companion Rises returns to a similar place but much farther out from the center.

With Companion Rises, Ben Chasny has created a Sci-Folk record that feels very much right-place, right-time as we welcome in the new decade. Listen to the first single “Two Forms Moving” above and preorder the new album for February 21st.

Pre Order – https://www.dragcity.com/products/companion-rises

Track Listing
Pacific
Two Forms Moving
The Scout Is Here
Black Tea
Companion Rises
The 101
Haunted And Known
Mark Yourself
Worn Down to the Light

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Six Organs of Admittance, “Two Forms Moving”

Six Organs of Admittance, Companion Rises video announcement

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