“A bizarre yet compelling mix of styles including post-punk, post-metal, post-rock, shoegaze, and sludge…With a shoegaze wall of sound and a post-rock delicacy to the vocals, it descends into abrasive, sludgy metal that’s absolutely destructive.” — New Noise Magazine
“Post-rock with the sound of Lynchian 90s shoegaze.” — Echoes & Dust
"A contrast in melody and drop-tuned sludge with airy vocals and heavy, heavy washes of six and four-string chordage.” — Decibel Magazine
Northern Ohio band Flourish share a new single & video from their forthcoming album today. The video for album track "New Cosmic Terror" launches via Decibel Magazine HERE (and YouTube) and Echoes & Dust features it in a track review HERE. Now streaming on all DSPs and Bandcamp.
The album was recorded at the beautiful Earth Analog Studio (owned/operated by Matt Talbot of Hum) in Illinois, engineered/mixed by Zac Montez.
Deepest Wellsprings of Being, the new album from Ohio based band Flourish, is the sound of 90s shoegaze run through the cinematic style of David Lynch and the post-futurism of Blade Runner. The album takes listeners through landscapes of ambient guitar and synth before plunging them into the sludge of a technological dystopia with the heaviness of post-metal and grunge. Along the way there's moments of beauty in guitar melodies, vocal interludes, emotional builds and guitar riffs that carry you off to another place and another time. It’s cinematic, sure, but the quartet knows when to just let a song be a song.
Opener “Waves of Nazaré” crashes over you like the titular Portuguese surf its named for, while follow up “Heavy Mountains” returns you to the land but in a no less grand setting, as epic guitar and drums recall classic Explosions in the Sky and God Is An Astronaut. First single “The Towpath” introduces vocals and another dimension of the band while “New Cosmic Terror” is the band's boldest statement yet, infusing synthesizers into their mix in a prominent way. The final three tracks create a triptych of life in a midwest town and flow effortlessly to close it out. Only a band so versed in speaking without words can deliver the type of depth and layered shoegaze heard here. They’ve spent a long time perfecting the mechanism of wordless melody as an instrumental postrock band. So that now with addition of vocals, the band’s sound is evermore intricate and multifaceted. Deepest Wellsprings of Being is the sound of a road tested band ready to advance their presence and style from the incredible Ohio shoegaze scene to the rest of the world.
Deepest Wellsprings of Being will be available on LP and digital on September 27th, 2024 via Lost Future Records. Pre-order HERE.
FLOURISH LIVE 2024:
10/18 Cleveland, OH - Brothers Lounge - album release party
Artist: Flourish
Album: Deepest Wellsprings of Being
Label: Lost Future Records
Release Date: September 27th, 2024
01. Waves of Nazaré
02. Heavy Mountains
03. Towpath
04. New Cosmic Terror
05. Steel Tracks Move The Trains
06. In The Shade of a Static Morning
07. Iridescent Pearl on Dark Velvet
08. The Spire
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