Choose Mortality, by Flesh & The Dream

Choose Mortality

by Flesh & The Dream

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deep_aid brilliant new work by the maestro with yet again an appropriate partner in magick crime. Shackleton´s ever progressing musical developement is so impressing, one of the very unique forces in contemporary electronic music. while this again is nothing for the faint at heart, pros and open minded listeners alike are in for a treat, the spell castings by Heather Leigh are the real deal. hard to pick a fave, Book Of Daniel Part 3 unfolds its ecstatic energy while I write this, so there you are.

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	1.	Ecstasy Before The Altar 08:52
	2.	Diviner Of The Flesh 04:39
	3.	Book Of Daniel Part 3 (The Image of Gold and The Blazing) 08:58
	4.	I Got A Fatalism 03:53
	5.	Before The Flood 07:52
	6.	Thirst For Disappearance 04:03
	7.	Into Euphoria 06:47

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"As Flesh & The Dream, Heather Leigh & Shackleton chart an ambitious journey of discovery in the psychic dancehall, conjuring a debut album that’s a psychedelic prog masterpiece, probing the gooey membrane between outré folk vocalisations and dizzying, queered soundscapes. There's nowt out there quite like it, a brilliantly unfathomable, singular vision.

‘Choose Mortality’ cultivates a delirious blossoming of ideas seeded when the pair first collaborated in 2019 for the Tunes of Negation 'Reach the Endless Sea' album. Bonding over a common musical language, but also a shared fascination with philosophy, religion and literature, they started pooling musical sketches to funnel their mutual passions into mottled alloys of outsider folk, fourth world musick and unstable, experimental electronics.

Distilled in spiralling dervishes and freely modal songcraft, their mutable artforms elide in fantastically slippery, lyersgic hallucinations of prog-pop guided by a rhythmic psychedelia. Heather Leigh shapeshifts in typically elusive form, wraithlike and seductive, as Shackleton’s signature, roiling percussive battery meets his muse with shearing synth textures and a rhinestone shimmer.

They strikingly recall moments of Sleazy’s Threshold Houseboys Choir in the puckered tone of ‘Diviner Of The Flesh’, and ascend magisterial levels of heart-in-mouth psychedelics with biblical centrepiece ‘Book of Daniel Part 3 (The Image of God and the Blazing)’. If the prog excesses of Yes, Genesis and King Crimson were an attempt to mechanise or electrify existing cultural forms with high-minded eccentricity, Shackleton and Heather Leigh continue that thought without poaching the aesthetic. Somehow, it's both progressive and psychedelic without succumbing to any of the creative pitfalls those forms might imply.

Most impressively, the duo present music that sits outside any particular continuum. There are traces of the kind of outsider art Heather Leigh's been peddling for years as an artist and as a curator/tastemaker, and there are elements of Shackleton's bass weight incursions, but Flesh & The Dream is an entirely unique proposition. Just clap yr ears on 'Before the Flood' - almost eight minutes of ratcheting FM clangs, hissing hi-hats and ghosted vocalisations that sound as close as we're likely to get to a collaboration between Coil and Kate Bush - and you’ll get a sense of the brilliant, unearthly delights in store." BOOMKAT

Digital only release on Bandcamp, physical copies available directly from Boomkat: boomkat.com/products/choose-mortality

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released July 7, 2023

Sam Shackleton: electronics
Heather Leigh: vocals

recorded by Flesh & The Dream 2019-2022
mastered by Rashad Becker
cover artwork by Chloe Grove
publishing by Mute Song

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Flesh & The Dream is the duo of Shackleton & Heather Leigh

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