Name: Origin of the Alimonies
Brand: Liturgy

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

YLYLCYN003

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0881626561928

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

YLYLCYN003LP

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0881626561911

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Liturgy

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

YLYLCYN

Liturgy is an American "transcendental black metal" band from Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2008 by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, the band started as a solo project and later expanded to a four-piece group. After releasing their debut 12-inch record "Immortal Life," Liturgy gained recognition and signed with Thrill Jockey. Their second album, "Aesthethica," was featured in Spin Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2011" list. Although some members left the band around 2012, they reunited to record their third studio album, "The Ark Work."

The current lineup consists of Hunter Hunt-Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Mario Miron on guitar, Tia Vincent-Clark on bass, and Leo Didkovsky on drums.

Similar artists to Liturgy include Krallice, Thantifaxath, Altar Of Plagues, The Body, Mamaleek, Panopticon, Deafheaven, Wolves In The Throne Room, Oranssi Pazuzu,
Boris,
Jeromes Dream,
sunn O))),
The Hirs Collective,
Agriculture,
Ashenspire,
BIG|BRAVE,
Model/Actriz,
Oxbow,
Portrayal of Guilt,
and KEN Mode.

Origin of the Alimonies is Liturgy's fifth full-length album and their first to fully integrate Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's vision of total art, or what she calls Perichoresis, with her musical compositions. The music amplifies a dramatic narrative addressing the question of the origin of all things, which itself aesthetically grounds the content of Hunt-Hendrix's ongoing philosophical YouTube series on her System of Transcendental Qabala. 

The album is by far Liturgy's most meticulous and radical statement, pushing their characteristic synthesis between black metal, minimalism, experimental club music, and 19th-century romanticism to new extremes. Exploring microtonality, free improvisation, polymetric structures and Richard Wagner's ideas of musikdrama and leitmotif, Hunt-Hendrix employs her unique "burst beat" technique to bind together the rhythmic signatures of metal, experimental club and classical music in the service of speech patterns and narrative flow. Featuring the virtuosic playing of bandmates Leo Didkovsky, Tia Vincent-Clark and Bernard Gann, the entire album also includes flute, piano, harp, strings and horns performed by a 8-piece chamber ensemble drawn from New York's various avant-garde music scenes.

Origin of the Alimonies

Music GB