GUEST POST: Adrienne Davies of Earth – Favorite Albums of 2019


 

Here is yet another Ghost Cult “End Of Year” Guest post! We’ll be sharing lists, memories, and other shenanigans from our favorite bands, partners, music industry peers, and other folks we respect across the globe. Adrienne Davies, drummer and artist non-parallel of Earth has shared her shortlist of faves from 2019 with us. Earth released their immense new classic Full Upon Her Burning Lips in May via Sargent House and we chatted with her and Dylan Carlson in New York to discuss the album and their career. Check out her picks! Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence


The music business is ugly, hard, and not for everyone. You hear this over and over from industry types and even some artists. Still, it’s hard to not pine for the days when record labels were really putting a priority on A & R (artist and repertoire), and nurturing tomorrow’s important groundbreaking artists. Sargent House is one of the few labels that allows talented people to find themselves over and over again. They release music that makes it easy to care and be passionate as fans. Like the iconic graphic on their logo, sometimes you get the snake, sometimes you get the sweet cup of wine. Once in a while, both. One of those artists you get both sweet and bitter with is the fantastic enigma that is Chelsea Wolfe. Continue reading


Earth – Full Upon Her Burning Lips


Despite being heralded as a paragon of minimalist Drone, Dylan Carlson and his fluctuating incarnations of Earth have eschewed the usual expectations of such music, moving through variations on the theme throughout their thirty-year existence. Ninth studio album Full Upon Her Burning Lips (Sargent House) sees the band return to its core of Carlson and percussionist Adrienne Davies, leading to a partial revisit of earlier days.Continue reading


Earth Streams New Single – “The Colour Of Poison”, New Album Due in May


Doom and drone band Earth has shared a new single and visualizer for their new track ‘The Colour Of Poison’. Their new album Full Upon Her Burning Lips will be released on May 24th via Sargent House. Produced by the band, the album was engineered, mixed, and mastered by longtime associate Mell Dettmer. Earth is now comprised of guitarist Dylan Carlson and percussionist Adrienne Davies. Preorders are available here and from Earth’s official store at the link below.

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