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The Bloody Mallard Post “Ceremonious Synapses (ii)” Video

Posted in Bootleg Theater on March 5th, 2020 by JJ Koczan

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The Bloody Mallard have been trickling out singles taken from their debut LP, Realm, since January 2019, so it’s safe to say that by now the album has a decent amount of lead-in. I’ve yet to find a release date, but that hardly means one doesn’t exist. Tomorrow, though, is March 6, and that marks the release of their third single from the impending long-player, “Ceremonious Synapses (ii),” which follows “Noble Rot” that was released in December and “Subject to Entropy” from, indeed, last January, in giving a taste of what Realm is all about. A video by Kevin Dawson brings visual accompaniment to the instrumental track from the London trio led by guitarist Tom Walding (Monsters in the AtticMidwich Cuckoos), and like its two predecessors, the track takes a progressive approach to heavy post-rock fluidity, touching on notions of psychedelia but ultimately remaining clearheaded about what it is working to accomplish in terms of atmosphere.

That, incidentally, is plenty. The mood and atmosphere of “Ceremonious Synapses (ii),” even apart from its I-read-interesting-books wordless dogwhistle, set up an immersive flow for the listener to engage, and unlike “Noble Rot” and “Subject to Entropy,” they take their time about it. There are differences of arrangement as well, but the new single is about two minutes longer than either of its predecessors, so even if it’s your first exposure to the band, it’s not an insubstantial one. And should the clip — which finds them playing to a stark white light, heads down in concentration but bobbing along to the central groove — put you in mind of Russian Circles, that would hardly seem to be a coincidence, though it would seem Walding is a big King Crimson fan as well, which is something one would hardly hold against him and certainly isn’t about to hurt in terms of ambitious songcraft.

Video is streaming below, followed by more info from the PR wire.

Enjoy:

The Bloody Mallard, “Ceremonious Synapses (ii)” official video

Directed and filmed by Kevin Dawson.

‘Ceremonious Synapses (ii)’ brings us to the 3rd single form prog, heavy-psych instrumental band, The Bloody Mallard, and it signals the most climatic point of the album ‘Realm’.

It is the 2nd of two songs under Ceremonious Synapses which both thematically explore the subject of neural pathways and behaviours within the human brain. Human consciousness and behaviours can be linked to the structure of these neural networks and based upon certain events in a person’s life (environmentally, traumatically, meditatively) these pathways can alter. The Ceremonious Synapses songs are thematically narrative of the conscious effort to change these pathways; part (i) focused one the frictioned physical and disciplined, whilst part (ii) focuses on the deeper and sub conscious/ spiritual level of change.

The Bloody Mallard is a London-based rock project headed by guitarist Tom Walding. After experimenting with melodies, rhythms and tones that were reminiscent of many mushroom trips in rural Kent, the sonic segments finally formed into songs which turned into the album, ‘Realm’.

The album was produced recorded and mixed by Jarred Hearman (Katy B, Wretch 32, Mammal, John Butler Trio, The Prodigy, Slipknot) at Konk and City Sounds Studios and The Gin Factory. Photo above by Daniel Rouse.

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