SFERIC GHOST TRANSMITS by SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD

No-one else makes music like this: devilishly complex but warm and intuitive, stirring together a dizzying assembly of outernational and outerspace influences, whilst retaining the subby funk-and-hot-breath pressure of Shackleton�s soundboy, club roots.The result is an evolutionary, truly alchemical music � great shifting tides of dub, minimalist composition and choral song (Five Demiurgic Options); ritual spells to ward off the darkness (Before The Dam Broke, The Prophet Sequence); radiophonia and zoned-out guitar improv (Seven Virgins); even the febrile, freeform psychedelia of eighties noise rock (Sferic Ghost Transmits / Fear The Crown). Over the five years since Music For The Quiet Hour, Vengeance�s vocal and lyrical range has rolled out across this new terrain. Throughout these six transmissions he�s hoarse preacher, sage scholar and ravaged bluesman; blind man marching off to war, and exhausted time-traveller warning of impending socio-ecological catastrophe. Six dialogic accounts of our conflicted times, then, expanding beyond the treacly unease of the duo�s early collaborative work into something subtler and more emotionally shattering � its shades of brightness more dazzling, and its darkness even murkier.