Gazelle Twin - Pastoral

“What species is this? What century?” Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England’s rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present. Told through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that “there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the “quaint” ”.

The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fête. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui.

Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, Pastoral will be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP UNFLESH (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholz’s J.G. Ballard-inspired A/V show ’Kingdom Come’ (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England.

TRACK LISTING

1. Folly
2. Better In My Day
3. Little Lambs
4. Old Thorn
5. Dieu Et Mon Droit
6. Throne
7. Mongrel
8. Glory
9. Tea Rooms
10. Jerusalem
11. Dance Of The Peddlers
12. Hobby Horse
13. Sunny Stories
14. Over The Hills

PRODUCT DETAILS

Artist:  Gazelle Twin
Label:  Anti-Ghost Moon Ray
Condition:  New 
Genre:  Indie & Alternative
Format:  Vinyl LP - Indie store exclusive red vinyl LP.
Cat Number:  AGMR036LP
Released:  21 September 2018