HERE LIES MAN - Ritual Divination - LP + Exclusive 7" - White LP & Blue 7" Vinyl

LABEL: Riding Easy Records

CAT NO: EZRDR125UK

BARCODE: 603111741918

Tracklisting:

Side A
1. In These Dreams
2. I Told You (You Must Die)
3. Underland
4. What You see
5. Night Comes

Side B
1. Come Inside
2. Collector Of Vanities
3. Disappointed
4. The Fates Have Won
5. Out Goes The Night

7″ Bonus tracks:
Side A – Run Away Children
Side B – I Wander

HERE LIES MAN – Ritual Divination

LP – White Vinyl + Exclusive Blue 7″ Vinyl
(Limited to only 666 numbered copies worldwide)

Four albums in, the convenient and generalized catchphrase for Here Lies Man’s erudite sound — if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat – might seem a little played out. But Ritual Divination is perhaps the best rendering of the idea so far. Particularly on the Sabbath side of the equation: The guitars are heavier and more blues based than before, but the ancient rhythmic formula of the clave remains a constant.

Ritual Divination continues with an ongoing concept of Here Lies Man playing the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, with each song being a scene. Likewise, musically and sonically, the album is self-reflexive. “On this album the feel changes within a song,” Garcia says. “Whereas before each song was meant to induce a trancelike state, now more of the songs have their own arc built in.” Similarly, the guitar sounds themselves herein eschew the fuzz pedals of previous recordings, going for the directness of pure amp overdrive and distortion using an interconnected rig of 4 amplifiers. And, here, the well-versed live band is able to record as a unit, giving it much more of a live and dynamic feel.