An Evening Redness Self-Titled Debut Due Feb. 25
If you’re feeling like you want heavy Amercana in literature and Faulkner’s too obvious, probably the place to head next is Cormac McCarthy, and fair enough. An Evening Redness take their moniker from the alternate title of Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, which was first published in 1985, and their self-titled debut will be released in just a few weeks through Transylvanian Recordings.
The project, spearheaded by Brandon Elkins of Auditor and Iron Forest, A Crown of Amaranth and others, brings together members from the Midwest, the UK and Australia, so one way or another a modern edge is sneaking through, but going by the streaming track “Mesa Skyline,” the intent is clearly geared toward atmosphere and texture in a post-metallic vein, and the first listen they’re giving is encouraging.
Info and whatnot from the PR wire:
AN EVENING REDNESS: Desert Drone/Doom Outfit To Release Self-Titled Debut February 25th Via Transylvanian Recordings; New Track Streaming + Preorders Available
AN EVENING REDNESS will release their stunning self-titled debut full-length on February 25th via Transylvanian Recordings.
AN EVENING REDNESS is parched desert drone doom and the sound of thunder over the mountains. Evoking the hallucinatory clarity of the alkali plains and the biblical violence of its literary namesake, the collective bursts from obscurity with a fusion of sounds that seem incompatible on paper but prove blindingly innovative in action.
Deeply introspective and evoking hallucinatory darkness, AN EVENING REDNESS’ self-titled debut is the newest release from Brandon Elkins. Composed, arranged, and produced by Elkins, the offering is a masterwork of diverse ambient doom and post-ambient composition, with the minimalism of Earth contrasted with passages that wouldn’t feel out of place on Jesu’s Opiate Sun. An ensemble of musical talents including vocalist Bridget Bellavia (BLKTXXTH, Piggy Black Cross), guest soloist Brendan Sloan (Convulsing), and session drummer Ryan Jewell (Riley Walker and many others) serve to underscore the drama and focused production contained within the album’s six tracks.
What ties the whole album together is an atmosphere that feels spiritually closer to a film score than what you’d expect from a solo record. Notes Elkins, “I wanted to make music that sounds like how Blood Meridian reads. Lonely, high plains insanity, sudden bursts of violence, longing melodies, ambient isolation.” Elkins’ work has always been hard to pin down, but this feels like a culmination of not only the best elements of his many projects – but the compositional mastery that can only come from decades of refined craft. With the intensity of modern doom masters like Bell Witch and the emotional and musical dexterity of Neko Case at peak powers.
In advance of the record’s release, today the band unveils their first single “Mesa Skyline.” Notes Elkins of the track, “‘Mesa Skyline’ begins the tale: a lonesome man sat down next to a withering fire, out among the salt and sage of the Western desert, waiting to die. He sleeps, but instead of the death he longs for, he awakens into a world of biblical violence and a blazing storm of hallucinatory revelation on the horizon.”
An Evening Redness will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Find preorders at THIS LOCATION: https://transylvaniantapes.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-redness
An Evening Redness Track Listing:
1. Alkali
2. Mesa Skyline
3. Winter, 1847
4. The Judge
5. Pariah
6. Black Flame At The Edge Of The Desert
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