Gravenhurst – “Song Of The Summoning”
Internal Travels
It’s difficult to choose between Gravenhurst’s rich Flashlight Seasons and the delicate, straightforward Internal Travels. Fortunately, you don’t have to. They’re both great, and the latter is packed with songs like this one, unassuming yet melancholy, but without a hint of preciousness.
He flew out of his chair with deadly, inconceivable terror clutching at his heart. The shape, whose left hand rested on the table, was rising to a standing posture behind his seat, its right hand crooked above his scalp. There was black and tattered drapery about it; the coarse hair covered it as in the drawing. The lower jaw was thin—what can I call it ?—shallow, like a beast’s ; teeth showed behind the black lips ; there was no nose ; the eyes, of a fiery yellow, against which the pupils showed black and intense, and the exulting hate and thirst to destroy life which shone there, were the most horrifying feature in the whole vision.
set fire to flames – “steal compass/drive north/disappear”
sings reign rebuilder
An album with a story, and a few actually great songs. The tender opening strains in “I will be true” recall the quiet sections of Godspeed’s earlier albums, and tracks like this one have the power of their more operatic tracks without the fluff.
How terrifying.
