Ancient Warfare - The Pale Horse (CD)

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Ancient Warfare were once the girls who smoked behind the high school gym. They were from distant shores & spoke in code

Ancient Warfare were once the girls who smoked behind the high school gym. They were from distant shores; they spoke in code. They talked about bands you wanted to know. They weren't going to stay too long. They buried themselves in drones of words and found guitars, mapping an intimate apocalypse along the way. Formed in Lexington, KY in 2011, Ancient Warfare have developed a fierce reputation for hard work and dynamic performance, sharing stages with artists such as Raveonettes, Richard Buckner, The War on Drugs, Chelsea Wolfe, Scout Niblett, Mr.Gnome, Lucius. Ancient Warfareʼs live show ebbs and flows from hushed harmony vocals to austere, tube-driven waves of sound. Singer/guitarist Echo Wilcox voices a vast landscape: last trials & bones, visions and paths to golden fields. Her lyrics are shared secrets, fevered dreams - all anchored by multi-instrumentalist Emily Hagihara (Chico Fellini, Jim James, and solo work), classically trained violinist Rachael Yanarella (Oh My Me), and recently recruited bassist Derek Rhineheimer (Oh My Me). Ensconced in a place of dynamic artistry, Wilcox and her band-mates were able to develop the distinctly cinematic, genre-bending sound of their debut album. 'The apocalypse seems the most appropriate subject,' said Wilcox. 'Not in an epic sense, but in a sense that it is all-encompassing.' Indeed, The Pale Horse lures the listener into a golden dreamscape only to darkly demand resolution to the inescapable, universal plagues of love and death. This apocalyptic thread running throughout reminds us that everything good and true can end; The wild beauty of a crashing wave will inevitably become the succumbing regress of the tide. Such polarizing themes are pervasive throughout the record. Wilcox's yearning vocals fluctuate in kind, emitted sometimes as a howl as on 'Dreamcatcher Bull', sometimes as a macabre rollick as on 'Gunsmoke.' The resulting sound is of a gothic renaissance breed...evoking tribal eccentricity, dramatic decay..

Track Listing

    • Darlin
    • Dream Catcher
    • Gunsmoke
    • The Last Living Trial
    • Tusk and Mouth
    • Lickin Lies
    • Rolling Tides
    • Wintertimes
    • (empty track on CD)
    • Killa Man

    Additional Details

    Label: Alias Records

    Genre: Country

    Language: English

    Run Time: 39:49 mins

    Region: 0

    Release Date: 12/11/15

    UPC: 093716015222

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