Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...
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| Studio album by The Sound of Animals Fighting | |||||
| Released | May 30, 2006 | ||||
| Recorded | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Experimental Rock | ||||
| Length | 54:25 | ||||
| Label | Equal Vision Records | ||||
| Producer | Rich Balling | ||||
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Lover, the Lord has Left Us... is the second album by the experimental rock band The Sound of Animals Fighting. The album was released on May 30, 2006 through Equal Vision Records but will still use Rich Balling's Stars & Satellites imprint. [1]
The album contains songs with considerably different tempos than the songs on the band's last album. "Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" utilizes kitchen sounds and a German opera singer.[2] "Un'aria" and "Un'aria Ancora" are a cappella tracks sung by Craig Owens of Chiodos in a feminine falsetto. On a recent Podcast "The Nightingale" aka Richard Balling mentioned that the names of the songs on the album all contain a similar element.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Intro" – 0:40
- "Un'aria" – 1:05 (Italian for "An Air")
- "Skullflower" – 4:13
- "My Horse Must Lose" – 4:21
- "Chiriacho Summit" – 1:30
- "Horses in the Sky" – 5:21
- "Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" – 8:03 (German for "Stockhausen, It is your brain that I seek")
- "Prayers on Fire" – 3:29
- "The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By the Sea" – 1:41
- "This Heat" – 10:35
- "Un'aria Ancora" – 0:39 (Italian for "An Air Again")
- "St. Broadrick is in Antarctica" – 3:00
- "The Heretic" – 5:01
- "There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us" – 6:34
[edit] Personnel
| Position | Name | Animal |
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| Producer, Vocals | Rich Balling (RX Bandits) | Nightingale |
| Guitar, Vocals | Matt Embree (RX Bandits) | Walrus |
| Drums, Programming | Chris Tsagakis (RX Bandits) | Lynx |
| Live Guitar | Steve Choi (RX Bandits) | Koala |
| Live Bass | Joe Troy (RX Bandits) | |
| Recording, Mixing | Ryan Baker | Hyena |
| Vocals | Anthony Green (Circa Survive) | Skunk |
| Album Artwork | Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))) | Giraffe |
| Vocals | Craig Owens (Chiodos) | Ram |
| Vocals | Keith Goodwin (Days Away) | Penguin |
| Vocals | Matthew Kelly (The Autumns) | Llama |
[edit] Additional Notes
Musical Styling
Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... is considerably different from Tiger and the Duke in many aspects. The music centers on electronic instruments such as synthesizers, drum machines, and computer-based music programs, rather than guitars or drums. Tiger and the Duke has a more band-oriented sound, whereas Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... has a more collaborative feel. There also exists great variation between different tracks. For example, "Prayers on Fire" has a considerably ethnic feel, due to Sanskrit vocalizations and samplings of a sitar. In contrast, "Horses in the Sky" is laden with heavy, incomprehensible drum n' bass grooves, though the chorus is much more organized and coherent. "The Heretic" is a soft ballad with rich, flowing string arrangements and lyrics associated with the burning of a heretic.
- The title "Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..." is a line from a song by Planes Mistaken for Stars generously donated for use by frontman Gared O'Donnell prior to the lyric's release on their last album "Mercy."
- On April 11, 2006, the band released "Skullflower" on their purevolume account.
- Skullflower contains a sample from the Neurosis song, "A Sun that Never Sets"
- "The Golden Boy That was Swallowed by the Sea" is also a Swans song, although this isn't a direct cover.
- "The Heretic" includes lyrics that relate to a song discussing similar themes on Tiger and the Duke called "Act II: All is Ash or the Light Shining Through It." Both songs include the phrases, "Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it." The lyrics allude to a poem entitled "Anorexic" [3] by Eavan Boland. Other lyrics in the song continue this idea.
- Rich Balling's father sings on "There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us".
- The album's pre-orders are being shipped with limited edition t-shirts, one available through interpunk and smartpunk, and another through merchnow. The designs are by artist Colin Strandberg.
- The connecting element in the song titles can be a reference to music artists. "St. Broadrick is in Antarctica" may refer to Justin Broadrick, whose band Godflesh is listed as influence on The Sound of Animals Fighting.[4] Furthermore, there are bands who are actually called Skullflower and This Heat. Horses in the Sky is a reference to the album by Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
[edit] Different languages in songs
- On the track "My Horse Must Lose", a woman speaks in a foreign language at the beginning and end, thought by many to be German. But the language spoken is Farsi, the Persian language and translates to "Look! Look! Look up in the sky! I've seen my destiny! My horse must lose, hahaha!" and at the end "I will answer your voice, directly. It's the sound of my breath."[citation needed]
- "Skullflower" features a woman singing a central Hindu prayer in Sanskrit:
"Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya / Mrityor ma amritam gamaya"
which translates to:
"Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to immortality."
- The language of the woman's voice sample at the beginning of "Horses in the Sky" is of the Navajo Language.[citation needed]
- The opera singer in "Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" takes her lyrical abstracts from a German poem of the Romatic era by Friedrich Rückert called "Warum willst du and're fragen," later set to song by Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann in a 3 song cycle written in 1841. The text is written in an older archaic form, making it difficult for translation by those who aren't familiar with the grammatical structure spoken and sung during the mid 1800s. The lyrics are taken from the first and last lines of the song. In German, "Warum willst du and're fragen...Sieh mein Aug', ich liebe dich!" Loosely translated in English, "Why will you question others...See my eyes: I love you!"
