The Ghosts Won’t Starve
(but We Will Perish) (18:00)
Elegy for Native Tongues (07:24)
Kohelet Revisited (17:48)
Queen of the Ships (14:07)
Santa Sangre (09:36)
Oresteia in One Part (14:20)
Solve et Coagula (11:35)
Los Heraldos Negros (14:54)
Tetragrammaton’s recent double album has been the kind recipient of Album of the Month honours on Julian Cope’s Head Heritage home channel. Here’s a choice culling:
The final track – entitled ‘Los Heraldos Negros’ – is a vast quarter-hour of Sonic Quakering, as though some fundamentalist Christians had formed a religion with rites based around the first Residual Echoes LP, or a coupla Titan-sized baritones were shaking the padlocked gates of the Universe, demanding to be let in, or someone had slipped a sample of Pere Ubu’s ‘Sentimental Journey’ on to the car-deck tannoy system of a Cross Channel ferry at disembarkation time, and the drivers were all gamely trying to nail the key by depressing their accelerators. Whatever it is they got, kiddies, y’all need some and that’s a fact.
For more fervid skiffling, visit the Head Heritage site for the full review.