Angels of Death Jennifer Castle SKU: POB041LP Barcode: 616892541448 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Paradise Of Bachelors Released Date: 4th May 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info On Jennifer Castle’s new album Angels of Death, her third full-length record under her given name (previous releases were credited to Castlemusic), the Ontario songwriter summons a kindred classical vision of the Muses as domestic familiars intimately in league with death. A sublime meditation on mortality and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death casts a series of spells against forgetting and finality, in the form of mystic-minimalist country-soul torch songs about writing, time travel, and spectral visitations. Castle wrote and recorded this breathtaking follow-up to the acclaimed Pink City (2014) in a 19th century church near the shores of Lake Erie, where her family also lived and experienced a constellation of losses that inhabit these bruised musings. The title track finds Castle wrestling, like Jacob, with the radiant angels of death “hanging in the room,” while she attempts to navigate, or write, her way through the “loopholes and catacombs of time”—the line is borrowed, with permission, from fellow Canadian poet Al Purdy—like Ariadne in the labyrinth, with her spool of silver thread. Real-life muses haunt Angels of Death as well. In addition to Al Purdy, whose verse appears as a result of an invitation from Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene to incorporate a Purdy poem, Castle cites Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta, Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, and Spanish artist Susana Salinas (the addressee of “Stars of Milk”) among those whose work served as catalysts. Angels of Death was produced by Castle and longtime collaborator Jeff McMurrich. Although augmented by notable other players at subsequent sessions, the core band comprised Paul Mortimer on lead guitar, David Clarke on acoustic guitar, Jonathan Adjemian on organ/piano, Mike Smith on bass (he also wrote the string arrangements), Robbie Gordon on drums, and Castle on guitar and vocals. Much of it, and most of Jennifer’s vocal tracks, were recorded live in the church over one cold weekend; “the moon,” Castle reflects, “was a member of the band.” Each side of the LP ends with a reprise of a 2008 song entitled “We Always Change,” a bit of wordplay, since “reprise” means a repetition or iteration. And so the record ends with metamorphoses—sequential transformations into a tree, the sea, a flame—much as it began with an enveloping presence neither fog, nor mist, nor cloud (“but you get the gist.”) Indeed, we always change. There’s no way out. We’re just passing through the ever omnipresent song. So let us, each of us, take our share in the Muses’ roses before we depart. Sappho knows. “Castle’s music is not so much of the earth as floating above it, untethered to the natural order of time and space. Her songs live in that gray area where observation mutates into rumination, and where the physical world dissolves into psychic terrain.” Pitchfork “Ravishing, soulful … stan ds comparison with the best of Judee Sill and Joanna Newsom.” Uncut Artist Jennifer Castle Genre Americana / Country Label Paradise Of Bachelors Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings A1. “Tomorrow’s Mourning” 3:07 A2. “Crying Shame” 4:05 A3. “Texas” 3:19 A4. “Angels of Death” 3:54 A5. “‘We Always Change’ Reprise Pt. 1” 1:22 B1. “Rose Waterfalls” 3:51 B2. “Grim Reaper” 3:09 B3. “Stars of Milk” 2:44 B4. “Tonight the Evening” 7:33 B5. “‘We Always Change’ Reprise Pt. 2” 1:39 Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jennifer Castle and more from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Jennifer Castle Monarch Season Folk | Paradise Of Bachelors | 1LP Released 20th November 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jennifer Castle Monarch Season £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Paradise Of Bachelors SKU: POB057LPDLX Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jennifer Castle Pink City Rock And Pop | Idee Fixe Records | 1LP Released 14th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jennifer Castle Pink City £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Idee Fixe Records SKU: LPIF009 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jennifer Castle Pink City Folk | No Quarter | 1LP Released 1st September 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jennifer Castle Pink City £16.00 Genre: Folk Label: No Quarter SKU: NOQ042LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jennifer Castle Castlemusic Rock And Pop | No Quarter | 1LP Released 5th March 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jennifer Castle Castlemusic £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: No Quarter SKU: NOQ029LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th March 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Jimmy Buffett Volcano Americana / Country | MCA | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 28th April 2022 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jimmy Buffett Volcano £8.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: MCA SKU: nn241411 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 28th April 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Merle Haggard Swinging Doors Americana / Country | Capitol Nashville | 180g, 1LP Released 11th March 2013 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Merle Haggard Swinging Doors £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Capitol Nashville SKU: 9120551 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th March 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Americana / Country | Real Gone Music | 180g, 1LP Released 12th February 2016 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Real Gone Music SKU: RLGM64003481PMI Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eilen Jewell Get Behind the Wheel Americana / Country | Signature Sounds | 1LP Released 5th May 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eilen Jewell Get Behind the Wheel £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Signature Sounds SKU: LPSIG7049 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John R. 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