Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 – review

(Southern Lord)With their reverb-drenched, melancholic guitars and somnolent rhythms, Dylan Carson's revived Earth always seemed the perfect audio accompaniment to a photographic journey through America's hinterland. But while the band's last release, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull, hymned sweeping expanses and giant skies, this, their sixth studio album, has a more claustrophobic, funereal feel – Robert Frank rather than Ansel Adams, perhaps. The addition of Lori Goldston's cello –...

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