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Dead Love's Grave

by Anilore

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Simon Booth
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Simon Booth Anilore are a band I didn't expect to hear from again after their one obscure album release, but here they are. The 18 year break seems to have done them good, this is more detailed and polished than their debut. File under "Very Shoegaze".
Michael Reilly
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Michael Reilly Anilore's heavily distorted sound produces reverb and fuzziness on an epic scale. Songs (especially the vocals) are absolutely drowned in a deep haziness that creates a very dreamy and highly textured mix of magical noise and emotion. Favorite track: Tangier.
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1.
(like all seasons turn / none stays the same) the timing and sparks / contorted by hand the missing and pining / laid out for other seekers subjection ahead / a taming of flight that trembling reaction / keep luring us to be here i have so much to say / things i never told / still won’t say a word / so nobody hurts latent murmur to grow / grounds to traverse / stay here by your side / so nobody hurts (somewhere we belong / somewhere in a song) bewildered in tune / betrothal by june in like of a ransom / each won another dowry temptation is here / call all disarray now vacant expression / once filled with joy and fear i have so much to say / things i never told / still won’t say a word / so nobody hurts i have so much to do / places haven’t gone / stay here by your side / so nobody hurts outside open window / out by toil and grime / there is my resolve / there is my mind
2.
Nine 03:56 video
days of deeds undone turned to years of no regret face turned paper thin / grater worn dance on dead love’s grave / gave us glimpse of something real do what we could just to be i want nine wish for babylon left us sunken fathoms deep thirst for tigris spring never ends gallons liquor drunk / happy as a fool can be yield what we should just to say i want nine
3.
Gigondas 06:20 video
come inside and intervene my belligerent serenity this tour has brought my memory back here / my tangerine calamity a walk i’ll take despite the cold and gray day come inside and intervene evening now / and air could macerate (on this walk / path is soiled and dark / hope is slim and sparse / gloom is on the upstart) quiet now / sing your heart out evening now / sing your heart out we weren’t meant for this / rhone river wild i can’t reach you through this / rhone river wild
4.
Red Nepenthe 04:25
(slowly / slow she goes) not to hear myself think / not to rush the time she’s fading into background / but not yet out of mind it can’t come true anyway / it’s best to let me forget been hours since i sat here / oblivion in sight just me and empty bottle / (and) her hazy shape of smile curse my indecision / parts of her still shine i cannot dream on she could not be here this time i must let go my arms hold is loose will is torn off she goes slowly leaving me (will is torn / tangled in her hair)
5.
way out the dark / don’t hold sway or change open that door / flames come crashing in bleed out one heart / to gain a dead star / can’t find my way back to you let go that door / shine in the dark room again (here succumbs yet another go all forlorn / all candor explode) distancing mark / separation wins placate no more / Ares sets in fan out the sparks / to grow a new heart / wait til the cold gets to you claim this new realm / blacken the brightness again and who wants this still lessening / hurt is stay
6.
Afterwake 03:00
a warm disarray / it’s hard to let it go i’m not gonna learn / falling every way air is thinning sky is bloated ground is not yet firm a warm disarray / it’s tangled in her hair a want is banished a touch is deadened a passion not yet sold yet she brightens still
7.
Enisler 01:33 video
you mystify me (change fell on her / without a coo) {someone will weep}
8.
Tangier 05:12
be it far or near / your scent is duly noted a scrape by your side / i choke by your side be it far or near / your color will be brighter a blink of your eye / i draw endless sigh is it hard / or is it crazy beyond harm can’t you tell / a want that chews your heart be it late / be it hard / be it safe for both of us is it hard / or is it crazy beyond harm can’t you tell / a want that stares you down be it near / be it far / be it safe for both of us be it far or near / the color always brighter is in your eyes be it far or near / the scent that’s duly noted is by your side
9.
in memory / this side is clear arm in arm falls to weigh and tare like end of june / songs everywhere quasi seem all out latent flair call of fall splendor deterred beneath wonder who to deceive realize there’s no one near ground up / phase ablaze know how fire begs to stay faithfully in me i never told should’ve never wanted her more than anything
10.
Absentee 02:39
wait / try / crave / cry / all shapes of you
11.
only vivid window / only one i care up to which my extent shied / stake on you began silhouette my fulcrum / aureole my might clandestinely watch you / you know that i can honed down to T / no mistake / no whims won light’s on now only wonted street / only strip i prowl beggars couldn’t bend my way / couldn’t drag me down confetti of leaves / bed me where i stand solely made to watch you here / you know that i am honed down to T / no mistake / no way lost no whims won down to a T / no default / no time down light’s on now contents of your room / what sustain my plight iridescent flicker outward / duly satisfies bending your reception / baiting you to care when you call me over / already be here eloise / consecration is done / lights are on (thought to die young only to find nothing’s wrong thought of your fears keeps me strong summer of tears / winter songs duly i stay behind you and catch all you drop)

about

18 years after their first album, Anilore returns with “Dead Love’s Grave.” Producing the album themselves, the band worked patiently over four years, using whatever methods were available to capture a sound and a feeling they had long sought to convey. Recording took place on computer and 4 track, in practice spaces and sheds, in bedrooms and studios, through windstorms and rain, in summer and in snow. The result is an album that evokes the haunting sounds of a distant past. Longing, desolate, disquieted, reconciled.

Orchestral layers of guitar drift through lonely, vacant places. Cascading vocals whisper like blurry, hazy choirs. Distant voices, a faint memory before sleep, washed away in beautiful reverberation. From the autumnal loneliness of “Gigondas”, the maudlin glory of “Nine”, and the crumbling anguish of “Blank Portrait”, to the isolated madness of “Afterwake” and the furtive devotion of “Leslie Street”, each song is its own short story. But taken together, these songs stir an emotion, somehow ineffable; elusive, yet always present. Falling asleep alone. Looking out the window on a rainy day. An endless sigh.

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released July 17, 2014

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Anilore

Cover image: "STARROSPHERE #2" by Anastasia Ugorskaya.

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Special thanks: Yves Etheart, Fontaine Toups, Jon Simpson, Corevino Goregovino, Victor Masnyj, Victor Rice

RIP Jacques Cohen

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