After a five year recording hiatus – Tenebrous Liar- are pleased to announce their new album: The Cut.
The eighth full length album release from the musical moniker of esteemed rock photographer and visual artist Steve Gullick, The Cut will receive its universal release on 15th December 2017 via the Straight Lines Are Fine label (available on CD, vinyl, and digitally).
Giving you the first taster the forthcoming record, Tenebrous Liar have also released clattering current single Alienation, which you can listen to below!
Gullick, the nucleus and mastermind of the project as ever, began writing and recording the album in late 2016 during a series of sessions held between the Coventry Rehearsal Rooms and at home.
Whilst, Tenebrous Liar originated as a project that sourced its creativity from a transient and ephemeral line up of musicians and collaborators over the years, since 2012’s ‘End of the Road’, the line-up has been gradually refined and cemented to a nucleus that sees Gullick collaborate with the talents of Brendan Casey on bass and Ben Edgar on drums. Now longterm members, the pair accompany his distinct haunting vocal style and ragged guitar wanderings on this latest release.
Driven by the notion to create more loosely structured and freer sounding pieces based upon a largely improvised recording style, the trio acted to bring this latest sonic envisioning to life. With ambitions of channeling psychedelic era Miles Davis, early PIL and Neil Young’s ‘Dead Man’ recordings, the result is ‘The Cut’ – 11 tracks of disorientating Lo-Fi soundscapes lost in a haze of atonal, discordant post-rock signatures and ambient, adrift piano motifs.
Not for the faint-hearted, The Cut is music designed to provoke a response. Incorporating songs dealing with global political frustrations (‘Alienation’) to nightmarish states of isolation (‘Lowland’). Hollowed-out piano ballads such as ‘Words’ and title-track The Cut, offset the monstrous eruptions of barbed noise that ripple through the likes of ‘Belong’ and ‘This Ground.’ From the warped and strangulated soulfulness of Stop Believing’, to the loneliness to be found in the love song: Forever, The Cut makes for nuanced and textured listen that is as equally soul searching and explorational, as it is bone chilling and harrowing.
Speaking about the recording process of The Cut, Gullick states:
‘’Making ‘The Cut’ was a completely new approach for us, we hadn’t all been in the same room for a while, and as soon as we started playing again everything just clicked back together, there were no rules, without the boundaries of a song and not knowing which way the music would twist and turn quickly became a really natural thing for Brendan, Ben & myself to do. We recorded so much material in those sessions, most of which we only ever played once. After each session, I’d take the recordings away and embellish them at home, we’re still listening through some of the recordings that didn’t make it onto the album now.’