ALISON COTTON - Only Darkness Now - LP - Silver Vinyl

LABEL: Friendly Recordings

CAT NO: FRLPR003

BARCODE: 5051083170246

Tracklisting:

1. All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre
2. The Last Sense To Leave Us
3. 36 Dramatic Situations
4. The Bells Of St Agnes
5. A Tragedy In The Tithe Barn

ALISON COTTON – Only Darkness Now

LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Silver Vinyl
(*Only 300 Copies pressed in this edition)

With gliding viola and choral forces, Only Darkness Now is a more alive, peopled landscape than its predecessor. Moods remain contemplative, concerned with vivid, historical netherworlds and torments – we see this in extended album centrepiece ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gate‘ and in ‘In Solitude I Will Fade Away‘. However despite its title Only Darkness Now has a brighter expanse: Cotton layers viola, chimes and Omnichord – an electrical ghost-like medieval drone, alongside percussion, harmonium, piano & voice. This is a confident record, lifting Shirt of Lace by medieval revivalist Dorothy Carter, from Celtic lament to cathedral like grandeur.