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Ritual Howls - Turkish Leather - Marbled Green & Black [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vi

Artist: Ritual Howls

Title: Turkish Leather - Marbled Green & Black

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 843563157886

Release Date: 2014

Record Label: Felte Records

Album Tracks

1. Zemmoa
2. The Taste of You
3. Take Me Up
4. My Friends
5. Final Service
6. Helm
7. No Witnesses
8. Turkish Leather

On the Detroit based three-piece's debut full length for felte, they incorporate a variety of styles into an ominously selfassured statement of intent, Ben Saginaw and Chris Samuels' sounds providing an imposing form for Paul Bancell's darkly alive lyrics to inhabit. Their influences range from English postpunk to Nick Cave to the industrial sounds of Skinny Puppy, and the band melds them expertly. Combining field recordings with electronics, this music is sound design turned pop. Many tracks here feel cinematic - whether it's the industrial clanging of "A Taste of You," which brings to mind a Lynchian bar scene, or the gothy synths of "Take Me Up," a slow burning track that escalates into full on melodrama. It's easy to imagine these twangy guitar lines gracing a scene in a Jarmusch film: their aesthetic owes as much to Tom Waits as it does Ennio Moriccone. Ritual Howls manages to take all these influences and come out sounding uniquely morbid, raw and unyielding - never derivative. It's a record that holds nothing back: the band announcing themselves to the world with all of the confidence of long time professionals. Their future audience will greet them with enthusiasm.