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LINKS [AB-OC-14] LONG LIVE DEATH - Bound To The Wheel  CD only $11 USA; $15 World 1. Awaken 2. Ribbons 3. Two Voices 4. Join Us 5. Bound to the Wheel [MP3] 6. We Are Defeated 7. Seven 8. Praise 9. Of One Long Live Death follow-up their 2003 Secret Eye debut, "To Do More Than God... To Die" with this, their second full-length. An invitation into their freakish world with nine new tracks of unsettling dark hippie folk. [AB-OC-12] LONG LIVE DEATH - To Do More Than God... To Die  CD only SALE! $9 USA; $12 World 1. There Is No Death 2. That Summer [MP3] 3. Bending Time 4. Bits and Bits 5. Strings Of Time 6. Patience Through All Worlds Psych, folk and twisted dark spirituals from this communal Baltimore outfit who recently toured as the opening band for Will Oldham in 2003 (Mr. Oldham says "thank you to the incantation factory that is LONG LIVE DEATH"). Gong, musical saw and cello figure prominently in these spooky, gospel flavored hymns. Let your freak flag fly! REVIEWS "Mesmerising and psychedelic throughout, this is an album for full-moon nights, which has immense power and a fragile beauty in equal measures and will transport you into the timeless realms of the imagination." - Simon Lewis for the Ptolemaic Terrascope "Open with the thunderous, Magma-styled boom of Christopher Freeland's "big drum", US sextet Long Live Death slowly glide into a chant that makes them resemble The Incredible String Band during their Hangman's Beautiful Daughter heyday. That's quite a surprise as the title and calligraphic, skulled out cover promise a hard rock free-for-all. Instead we are treated to wondrously composed, folk-flecked ballads made even more magical by instrumentation that includes cello, accordion, violin, melodica and saw. Fans of Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Double Leopards and the aforementioned ISB will surely find something here to cling onto." - The Wire "Whether it's the kitchen-sink surrealism inspired by the Fernando Arrabal movie from which it stole its name or the ebb-and-flow psych of Father Yod and the Yahowa 13 that it seems poised to become, Baltimore's Long Live Death is an obtuse band that seamlessly intertwines its own bizarro-world ideas with folk-rock's crusty musk. Onstage the band unrolls a long and winding goad that isn't going to be every longhair's bag, but anybody who ever held even the slightest of thangs for love beads and nudie pics shouldn't miss." - Baltimore City Paper Long Live Death's To Do More Than God... To Die is, just as the name suggests, the kind of record which will bring any after party to an abrupt end. Blank stares and silence will probably replace what was once an apartment filled with laughter as soon as the huge percussive march of "There Is No Death" comes through the door. There is something spiritual and communal about this short album that will have people hearing it stop doing whatever they're doing. I actually tried this thesis earlier tonight and it worked right away with a following comment like "what is this!?" Not that it really is that strange but the darkness that comes along with these slowly developing folk-psych meanderings is just astonishing, if not even overwhelming. Cello, flute, gong, musical saw, accordion, bells, violin, melodica and vocals make up something you could call gospel music for "The New Weird America" generation. To tell you the truth it's pretty damn good but the party mood I was in after I got home from work today is long gone. But I can't really say that I mind that too much." - Broken Face 
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