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Old Growth

by Fleshhoof

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Lark's Lung/The Skeptic 06:12
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Leopard Waltz 07:31
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Gravel Suite 06:54
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Applause For A Stream 07:13

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Reconnecting With The Eternal

Fleshhoof returns to bring in the new year with their latest album Old Growth. After releasing Meeker Death Mask last year on Collective Ego Death, Cassidy Spine took some time off from Fleshhoof to focus on healing. She found solace in nature, running on trails, fishing and camping all alone. With quarantine and the idea of touring off the table she retreated into herself and has now emerged with this new, strange world. Spine said of the time: “It felt like a forced excursion into nature that I was resistant too until I felt it healing me. There’s no one to see and nowhere to go, so you camp and hike and run because your just trapped otherwise. I wasn’t doing it for health benefits or to prove something. It was a gradual understanding of how nature heals a broken person.”
The music is absolutely beautiful though. It’s broken classical filtered through an SP-404, full of spilt over strings and impressionistic glitches. In a way it mirrors some elements of The Caretaker, but rather than dwelling on mystery or the dark, these are airy glitches that slowly drift you into another place. The music often feels like you’re flying. Thing whirl by you and you’re simply gliding along at whatever pace. Your focus is scattered by clouds and shrieking birds but it’s a warm, pleasant feeling. As Spine states, the natural world was the basis for this record, it’s beauty is simply and your focus rewards what you put in. It sounds like painting in the rain, or trying to sleep while a pair of lovers gently converse next to you. Strange vibes but so wholly full and glowing.
There’s a trick of the lights played on this album though. As soon as your floating down the brook on your back, you hit currents and rocky patches. The glitches, repeats and skips help draw focus to the dangers around you. For even the most peaceful moment spent in the woods alone breeds a little paranoia about what might come out of the forrest behind you. Old Growth is one of the most beautiful records we’ve had a chance to release yet. Collective Ego Death is projecting healing energy to all this new year and have a peaceful present to help escape what we’ve already been through. 2021 will see brand new things for our label and we are grateful to have the artists we do with us at this point. More to come and a surprise on our anniversary.

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released January 1, 2021

Fleshhoof - Production, Mixing, Cover Art

Erodi Uakari - Mastering
Jan Sol - Jacket Design

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