EARTH: Entire Forthcoming LP Now Streaming

As Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II -- the new full-length from Seattle's EARTH -- nears release next week, Pitchfork is now hosting an exclusive stream of the entire album! Tune in and drop out to the record RIGHT HERE.

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II will be released on North American soil by Southern Lord this coming Tuesday, February 14th. While recorded by Stuart Hallerman and mastered by Mell Detmer in the same sessions as its predecessor, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I,  the second chapter in the series invokes even more improvisational and unrestrained energy. The new album is being praised by journalists across the globe as one of the paramount albums in EARTH's storied, ongoing linage, now over two decades long.

EARTH have also recently booked an album release show for Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II, in their home town of Seattle. The performance will take place at The Highline on February 25th with opening support from Low Hums and Cold Lake being provided. Several days the band will embark on their newest European tour including a stop at All Tomorrow's Parties' upcoming festival curated by Jeff Mangum at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, England, alongside The Magnetic Fields, Thurston Moore, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Boredoms and countless more.

View EARTH's full confirmed tour itinerary and more at their official website, and stay tuned for more live updates on the band over the coming weeks. Interviews with Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies are also still available.

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EARTH's Entire New Album Streaming On NPR

Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1, the latest organic opus from EARTH, is now streaming in its entirety as an NPR "Exclusive First Listen." Click here to check out the whole album, where it will stream for free until February 7th.

Set for release on February 22nd, once again for Southern Lord Recordings, Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 represents yet another new chapter in the EARTH lineage, as the band continues to expand their trademark slow-morphing drone a bit beyond the realms they've explored on their last handful of releases and recent years of touring, and continuing to reproduce continually inspiring music as they have with every recording to date.

EARTH have also announced an official hometown record release show for Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1, scheduled for March 3rd at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle.

EARTH Record Release Show:

3/3/2011 The Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA w/ Mount Eerie, Low Hums

More live actions for the band are being confirmed now and will be announced as they're available.

"As Earth developed its heavy instrumental vision in the past six years, subtle deviation has been crucial to the band's renewal. Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1  is the latest installment in that trajectory, adding a cello, desert blues and British folk-rock motifs to Earth's slow-moving Americana." - NPR

"While Angels of Darkness... is Earth's cleanest record, it is perhaps their most focused, as well as one of their darkest. The album emanates looming disaster while still retaining the haunting shadows which stretches from its boots." - Chronicles Of Chaos

"...finds the band as unwilling as ever to settle creatively, toying with titular contradiction, fostering a previously-unheard richness of tone and taking their rightful place at the head of their genre." - The Obelisk

"Soothing, tranquil, spacious, this album is good for long, unplanned, contemplative walks with naught but your own a-wanderin’ thoughts to keep you company." - Burning Ambulance

"A spellbinding piece of art. 9/10" - Metal Assault

"The layers they have beautifully constructed on Angels... is quite like a symphony that makes you patiently listen and take in every long sustaining note. 5/5" - Stereokiller

"...a new album that shows not only are they still progressing and evolving but are still the leaders of the minimalistic doom aesthetic." - Doommantia

"...the band pushes the envelope once more with a darker side to things then in their previous releases. Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 is an album that features 5 tracks of sheer brilliance..." 95/100 - Infernal Masquerade

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EARTH: NPR Track Premiere & Record Release Show Announced

We're proud to announce that National Public Radio will host an exclusive stream of a track from EARTH's upcoming full-length release Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1. Go to NPR's All Songs Considered blog to hear the album's rich and transcendent second track, "Father Midnight," at this location now! 

EARTH have also announced an official release show for Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1, scheduled for March 3rd at The Tractor Tavern in Seattle, with support from Mount Eerie and Low Hums. During this special evening, EARTH will be celebrating their newest live lineup and showcasing the hymns on Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1, which will be released on February 22nd worldwide on Southern Lord Recordings.

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3/3/2011 The Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA w/ Mount Eerie, Low Hums

"...Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I finds the band as unwilling as ever to settle creatively, toying with titular contradiction, fostering a previously-unheard richness of tone and taking their rightful place at the head of their genre." - The Obelisk

"Soothing, tranquil, spacious, this album is good for long, unplanned, contemplative walks with naught but your own a-wanderin’ thoughts to keep you company." - Burning Ambulance

"The layers they have beautifully constructed on Angels... is quite like a symphony that makes you patiently listen and take in every long sustaining note. 5/5" - Stereokiller

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EARTH Unveil Details For Anticipated New Album

EARTH have completed their highly anticipated upcoming full-length album, which has been a subject of much discussion over the past two years. Following the band's magnificent 2008-released The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull opus, the next chapter in the ongoing EARTH legacy is ready for public consumption. To see release via Southern Lord Recordings in February 2011, the recently completed new album has been titled Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1, and promises to be a brand new entity within EARTH's already impressive and constantly progressing lineage.

Joining founding guitarist and band frontman Dylan Carlson and percussionist Adrienne Davies, the album lineup this time around also includes cellist Lori Goldston (Nirvana, David Byrne, Black Cat Orchestra, Laura Veirs) and Karl Blau (K Records, Laura Veirs, Microphones) on electric bass.Returning to Seattle's Avast Studios in April and July of 2010 to again work with producer Stuart Hallerman (Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Built To Spill, and Earth2), EARTH's newest masterpiece shows the band continuing to expand on the Americana themes represented on The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull, and even their incredible 2005 album Hex (Or Printing The Infernal Method),taking their sound into broad new directions.

Citing inspiration from British folk-rock bands the Pentangle and Fairport Convention, as well as North African Tuareg band Tinariwen this time around, while still maintaining the thunderous, organic heaviness of previous EARTH releases, the material on Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 is more fluid and melodically oriented in nature, relying on more textured patterns and a greater emphasis on improvisational songwriting tactics. This, as well as the inclusion of cello and other experimentations from the musicians involved, culminate into some unforgettable new hymns. The album was mastered by Mell Dettmer, who also remastered the recent re-release of EARTH's first recordings in the form of A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction, released by Southern Lord in late October.

Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 Track Listing:

1. Old Black

2. Father Midnight

3. Descent To The Zenith

4. Hell’s Winter

5. Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1

View the cover art for the album by Stacy Rozich and more info HERE.

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