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LINKS [AB-OC-38] SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE - Curse The Traced Bird  CD $12 USA; $16 World LP $16 USA; $28 World 1. Black Earth 2. Java Pop [MP3] 3. Party Favors 4. Equus Haar [MP3] 5. Underscore 6. Red Fall 7. Pouring Mind Fourth full-length of bewitching juju from the preeminent ladies of primordial psychedelic mysticism. Recorded in Philadelphia with members of Espers. Both the CD and LP feature original art by UK artist Trevor Simmons, and both formats are hand-silk-screened... SUPER LIMITED and numbered. CD edition of 500; 300 LPs. [AB-OC-28] SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE - This Is Fire  CD $11 USA; $15 World Dutch import LP version NOW AVAILABLE - $25 USA ONLY 1. Spike Fiddle Song 2. Clouds [MP3] 3. Sleeplike 4. Morning Song [MP3] 5. Sea Shanty 6. Let The Crows Fly 7. Bee Forms 8. Desert Mind The ladies are back with their third full-length and gearing up for twin US and European tours to support it. Trading off instruments, vocals, and song-writing, this album is a dizzying incantation rich in texture and utterly transfixing. REVIEWS "This is the best release from Spires in the Sunset Rise yet... This is Fire is fantastic and is a big step forward for the band. There isn't a chink in their armor at all here. The music is constantly powerful and primal, not only that but the band are quite on their own in terms of style. As unique as I find them, it's only now that I think they've captured the perfect sound that they've been striving for." - Brainwashed "The Spires' third album is a masterpiece in their already mind-boggling and totally unique musical ouvre. With This is Fire (Secret Eye), the all femme group takes another step away from the scattered pagan howls and freakouts of their incredible self-titled debut (The Slits plays Comus?) towards the realm of pure psychedelic mysticism." - Foxy Digitalis [AB-OC-17] SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE - Four Winds The Walker  CD only $11 USA; $15 World 1. Four Winds 2. Wide Awake 3. Little for a Lot [MP3] 4. Sheye 5. Sort Sands 6. Ong Song 7. This Aint for Mama 8. Shining 9. No Matter 10. Imaginary Skin [MP3] 11. Serum 12. The May Ham [MP3] 13. Born in a Room 14. The Walker The creaky, cracked avant-garde folk of Spires That in the Sunset Rise is intense, to say the least. Four Winds The Walker, their second full-length, features lush instrumentation, skittery improv, warbly incantations and a beautiful home-spun aesthetic. REVIEWS "Spires That in the Sunset Rise are a Chicago-based, all-female quartet whose ecstatic, communal psych-folk draws on the same fragrant smoke that fed the otherworldly likes of such vintage acts as Comus, Jan Dukes De Grey, or COB, as well as on the crypto-ethnicity of the Sun City Girls' Carnival Folklore Resurrection series or the Gothic spiritualism of Current 93. On their second album Four Winds the Walker, the foursome emit such inspired gusts of collective fire that they resemble a witches' coven almost as much as a band, their shadow-draped music seeming to issue forth organically from the soil like a sulfurous hot spring. When operating at their peak, which is the case on much of Four Winds the Walker, Spires That in the Sunset Rise can invoke the unbounded, ageless music one might expect to hear emanating from the deepest forest, as mysterious black-cloaked figures dance around the fire-ring. Whether that sounds more like a warning or an invitation is left up to the traveler." - Pitchfork "There is a nice, tense, wheezy otherness to the way that the strings breathe in and out in concord with the harmonium, and that the vocals blend incantational tones with barks right out of Polansky's Macbeth." -Arthur Magazine, on their self-titled debut "Their eclectic, pagan-inspired and oh so damaged free folk meanderings bring to mind the event in a ghostly precise way and I guess that could be considered a great compliment if you, like me, belong to the category who worships the ground of Comus and Current 93" -Mats Gustafsson for The Broken Face on their self-titled debut 
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