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01. CLAY RENDERING - Maps on the Floor
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02. CLAY RENDERING - Swallow the Century
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03. CLAY RENDERING - Sight from Up Here
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04. CLAY RENDERING - Snowthorn
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05. CLAY RENDERING - River Without
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06. CLAY RENDERING - Fall Off the Bed
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07. CLAY RENDERING - Patient Days
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08. CLAY RENDERING - Memory Loses Momentum
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09. CLAY RENDERING - Night to Perish
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ARTIST
CLAY RENDERING
TITLE
Snowthorn
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
CATALOG #
HOS 433CD
HOS 433CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
12/11/2015
Perhaps the most compelling of the many projects started by one-time members of
Wolf Eyes
,
Mike
and
Tara Connelly
's
Clay Rendering
came to life in 2013 and have since released a trio of singles for Hospital Productions that have gained them the admiration of followers spanning the electronic and metal communities. Their material occupies unique terrain, recalling
The Cure
's widescreen
Disintegration
-era instrumentals cut through with a black metal palette and an appreciation of electronic music that imbues their production (notably assisted by
Dominick Fernow
) with an end-of-the-world quality that's impossible to pin down. Evoking
Nine Inch Nails
one moment and inhabiting a smoke-filled, strobe-lit Road House the next, it leaves the listener bleary-eyed, head spinning, coming down. Guitar, accordion, piano, and electronics underpin the songs on their debut album,
Snowthorn
, opening with the whirling death march of "Maps on the Floor" and the funereal trudge of "Swallow the Century" before the grinding fuzz of "Sight from Up There" changes pace with the addition of a forlorn piano melody and
Becka Diamond
's distant vocal zooming in on half-remembered songs, rendered here with hazy definition. "Fall Off the Bed" and "Memory Loses Momentum" find Clay Rendering at their most visceral and catchy, a reminder that they are first and foremost a band that write incredible songs; often submerged in fuzz and atmosphere, here they are left exposed, bare, on display. And yet "Snowthorn," "River Without," and the incredible album closer "Night to Perish" edge the album from the bleak into the sublime, turning away from the snowy landscapes Clay Rendering so often evokes and pulling you instead deep into night. Mastered by
Paul Corley
and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.
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