ltd#88: pink priest "cat tails // at the mouth of swollen summer" c20 $7 US / $9 INTL
this semi-recent discovery has quickly manifested itself as one of my total faves. pink priest hails from northeast arkansas and is further proof that there's tons of amazing, amazing shit happening in the furthest reaches of the u.s. "cat tails // at the mouth of swollen summer" is the perfect soundtracked for the soul-melting heat that's currently crushing tulsa. pink priest finds simple, exquisite melodies and plucks them out of the air only to drown them under 20,000 leagues of sea water.

keyboards are bent and mangled into unrecognizable swells; tones pitch forward looking like they're ready to take the ultimate swan dive. this music is dense, but more like a wall of helium than a mass of steel. minimal percussive bursts pop up at times adding a mechanical resonance to the proceedings. when pink priest adds in sepulchral vocal incantations it's like aa perfect drug. all the while, though, these synthetic, keyed drones light a new path through the ozark skies. total diamond style. edition of 75, pro-dubbed ivory beasts.

tracklist
side one (cat tails)
1. cardinalidae
2. cat tails

side two (at the mouth of swollen summer)
1. maya
2. treehouse
3. pregnant bellies (w/ jen paul)
4. mercurochrome

SOLD OUT
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