Puma Blue – Holy Waters PRE ORDER: 01\/09\/23 Death nestles like a sweet creature at the heart of Holy Waters, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s In Praise of Shadows, set for release this Autumn via Blue Flowers. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s less a morbid study in mortality, more a chronicle of the graciousness within each repeated cycle of life, death and rebirth, arriving eventually at a gentle affirmation to himself, to the listener, at the album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s close, to keep going, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let the dark take you whole\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the hope-tinged bleakness that gets you. A substantial leap in Jacob\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s artistry; extraordinary multitudes of hurt and relief are journeyed in his writing, navigating the spaces between grief and elation, and the strange semblances between solitude and community. Across its eleven tracks, his voice is a gossamer fabric delighting in the brightest language as he retraces every path walked in the harshest years of his life with a startling sincerity, looking each face of grief in the bloodshot eye. For the most part, he accepts it. Recorded with his live band over the course of two visits to Eastbourne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Echo Zoo Studios, a joy permeates each sonic corner of Holy Waters, the studio techniques more analogue and experimental than his previous work, but sounding fuller, richer, killing what ego was left in Puma Blue and paying their band-centric debts proudly. Inspired still by luminaries from Jeff Buckley to Bj\u00c3\u00b6rk, more important to Holy Waters was Portishead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inexplicable marriage of a live band and production, and the improvisational work of Can and Hendrix. This is an album that can be devoured late at night with headphones as much as it can be blasted on the open road. While Holy Waters might be his darkest work to date \u00e2\u20ac\u201c even when compared to the moreish sadness flooding his breakthrough EPs Swum Baby (2017) and Blood Loss (2018) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it seems to find Puma Blue in a better place than ever. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if death being the centrifuge to the album has made the beautiful moments that remain all the more beautiful; after all the sorrow and pain has passed, Holy Waters basks in them. – indies exclusive \u00c2\u00b7 limited edition \u00c2\u00b7 transparent blue vinyl \u00c2\u00b7 standard weight vinyl \u00c2\u00b7 5mm spined sleeve, matt machine varnish + poly-lined plain black inner sleeve \u00c2\u00b7 20pp 12inch booklet TRACKLIST: 1 Falling Down 2 Pretty 3 O, The Blood! 4 Hounds 5 Too Much, Too Much 6 Epitaph 1 Gates (Wait For Me) 2 Dream Of You 3 Holy Waters 4 Mirage 5 Light Is Gone<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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