£36.99
Swiss quartet Lone Assembly present their debut album, ‘Knots & Chains’: hymns of pain, alienation, and sorrow, certainly, but also of hope, strength, and courage. Cloaked in a gothic aesthetic, the record is a new wave/synth-pop exploration of control in all its forms: control exerted by others, cultivated within ourselves, and imposed by the places we inhabit. When Lone Assembly released ‘That Never Happened’ in early 2024, a debut EP paying tribute to a lost loved one, the band quickly became more than just a group of friends making music: it became a space for healing, a place of closeness, a necessity. And while this urgency was evident in the band’s first songs, it is even more apparent on their debut album. ‘Knots & Chains’ leans heavily into chiaroscuro, casting shifting light across songs born of profound darkness. Here, the band uses each track as a means to examine control in its various forms. First, there is the control that others exert, as in the unsuccessful attempts of the narrator of ‘You’re Pulling at the Same Strings’ to understand the evil that dwells within the other: ‘I’ve been wondering where your ache breathes, in mazes you design?’.Then there is the control we exert over ourselves, as in the captivating ‘The Pain Keeper’ and ‘My Life’s Solid’.And finally, there is the control of places that also transcend us, as in ‘The City Works Like This’, where the city acts like a living organism, absorbing, rejecting, distorting. Splatter Vinyl, limited to 800 copies.
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