Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion - TEST PRESSING - Slowdive, Goth, Shoegaze

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This is a rare vinyl test pressing of Drab Majesty's EP/mini-LP An Object In Motion, featuring Rachel Goswell of Slowdive

Information:

Artist: Drab Majesty

Title: An Object In Motion

Cat.: DAIS205

Release Date: August 25, 2023

Record Label: Dais Records

Side A:

Vanity (feat. Rachel Goswell)

Cape Perpetua

The Skin And The Glove

Side B:

Yield To Force

"Delicately wavering guitar lines, wispy vocals that bear a debt to decades of goth’s great dramatists—but the songs stretch and twist into newly abstracted forms.

"“The Skin and the Glove” draws on the MDMA-mangled haze of Madchester for an ecstatic yet cryptic song about the passage of time…

"The 15-minute song “Yield to Force” is the clearest example of Drab Majesty’s newfound commitment to dreamlike structures and heavy-lidded ambience. Tensile guitar arpeggios knot into thick tangles and then slowly unfurl, like a ball of yarn floating in low gravity. Structurally, it’s a departure for their music: loose, impressionistic, and entirely wordless. Yet it’s still propelled by the sense of drama that has been the project’s signature for over a decade. Centrifuged down to its parts and reassembled into dizzying new arrangements, the composition represents a bold new direction, more unearthly and unsettled than they’ve ever attempted before.

""Vanity,” cushions a meditation on misery in pillowy guitar lines and feather-light vocals from Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell. It’s an especially spacious and labyrinthine take on the duo’s shoegaze-esque style. As a latticework of guitar lines and reverb-smeared vocals builds toward a blurry cacophony, the border between DeMure and Goswell’s vocals and the noise around them smudges and swirls. Chaotic and unsettling but strangely beautiful, it’s the record’s most affecting moment, and a reminder that An Object in Motion is like little else that Drab Majesty have released, a version of gothic guitar music divined from the static of deep space radiation." - Pitchfork

RIYL: Vini Reilly, Felt, Chapterhouse, Spacemen 3, The Telescopes, Slowdive, HTRK / Jonnine Standish, The Cure (The Top; The Glove’s Blue Sunshine), The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, bar italia

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