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III: The Sorrowful Cries of Birds with Singed Feathers

by Another Heaven

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danvogues
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danvogues One of, if not, the best tracks of anything I've listened to this year. So good! Favorite track: Over It.
Fedaykin
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Fedaykin Heavy, layered, melodic, and gorgeous. These guys have taken a massive leap forward with this record. It swings from epic to intimate, or both at the same time, and the production sounds great too. My favorite tracks probably are Afire, Riven, and Over It. Will be listening to this release for a long time to come. Favorite track: Afire (Without Us).
Iampigman
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Iampigman What a powerful album, the production is so lush with the way all the heavy parts flow into beautiful atmospheres. This ending of this album and the way it trails into an etherial ambience is perfection. This band really has something unique and special here and it's only developing more and more. Favorite track: Only Death is Real.
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Future Song 03:08
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Headless 06:08
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Over It 04:46
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Your Shadow 04:31
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Recoil 06:33
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about

“THE SORROWFUL CRIES OF BIRDS WITH SINGED FEATHERS” is the third release from midwestern Sludgegaze band Another Heaven. A collection of songs that seeks to summarize the many pet obsessions that brought the band together in the first place - emotions of hopelessness, dread, existential horror and apathy; vivid descriptions of horrifying dreams; various strains of epic guitar rock - the release is, at turns, crushing and atmospheric; incredibly bleak and weirdly uplifting. Started as an exercise in collective songwriting after finishing another long-running project, this collection of songs tracks the dissolution of America in parallel to an intense year of personal introspection.

Musically, it pushes the band’s Sludgegaze sound further in both directions to create incredibly heavy songs adorned with lush, multilayered guitar and vocal melodies that frequently dissolve into hushed atmospherics. Often eschewing the traditional shoegaze trappings in favor of a more direct approach, these songs transition from insanely heavy pummeling to cloudy atmospherics on a dime; pushing the hazy cloudbusting of Shoegaze as far into the realm of Heavy music as possible.

Taking on a whole new resonance as the band recorded the album at their personal music space during the 2020 hellscape, these songs weigh the personal losses we endure against the massive cultural shifts that seem to Delete entire ways of existing from our collective consciousness. Started in the wake of the current political and social upheaval, the band draws parallels between the destruction of our natural environment from climate change, the rapid expansion of technology that defines our current era and the total collapse that we are currently experiencing as the Old World dies to make way for an uncertain future.
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The album was written collectively, with everyone chipping in on vocals and guitar and basic songwriting handled by all members of the band. For the first time, the band trades off on lead and backup vocals - a practice which creates moments of stunning contrast such as Aaron’s spoken verses on “Your Shadow,” the lilting backups on “Recoil” or Cole’s shouted choruses on “Unfit” (songs that were also written by their respective vocalists).

The lyrics were - similarly - written by all members. Born of late-night conversations about the dire circumstances we find ourselves in and the quickly deteriorating situation that working Americans face everyday, the album eventually became a sweeping survey of mourning - starting with a personal loss, moving into a political one and ending with total ecological collapse - and the things we do to stay sane and alive when faced with such apocalyptic prospects. It’s a strange, conflicted set of thoughts on a complicated topic embodied best by the album’s ending - a shouted monologue that imagines a grisly, post-apocalyptic ending even as we strive to create something new.

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released August 27, 2021

Written and Performed by Another Heaven (ali jaafar, aaron lemay, cole benson)
Recorded by Ali and Cole
Mixed and Mastered by Ali

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