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Weathered

by Unwavering

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Excerpt from 'Freeze, Thaw, Chorus', an album by Unwavering, Edinburgh-based purveyor of subterranean shoegaze/drone songs.

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Unwavering is the moniker of songwriter Matt Bennett who began the project in earnest in 2018 after a move to Edinburgh served as a conscious break from previous efforts in Leeds-based prog/punk rock band Unwave. The music is stark, minimal, cavernous reflecting musical influences such as Low, Belong, Cocteau Twins as well as the surrounding landscapes of the Pentlands and the Forth. These are apparent on debut album 'Freeze Thaw Chorus' an expansive record that sounds at various times either melancholic, defiant, eerie or huge.

The 8 tracks were laid out to be greater than the sum of their parts and tied by an almost subterranean atmosphere whilst recording on location in a large chapel gives the album it's live feel. Subject matter is abstract describing concepts like scale, compression, types of distance, natural disaster, daily rituals and loss of familiarity though more specific imagery and tales are glimpsed throughout as reference points.

'Freeze, Thaw, Chorus' was recorded in one session with one guitar track and a lot of ambient mics at Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds with Tom Goodall (Cattle/Super Luxury) of Mirrorman Audio. It will be released in August 2019.

Music: Matt Bennett
Recording/Mixing: Tom "Goodall" Goodvibes I
Mastering: Ross Halden
Photo: Owen Godbert
Art: Sandra De Iuliis/Matt Bennett

Thanks to Jo James and the Mill Hill Chapel congregation

lyrics

Bilnk in the light
We are yours for only tonight

Out of debris, out of touch, out of random weave

Comes a display that slips underfoot like clay
Never finally formed, just sometimes rendered from raw

This is your breath
A monument to your only thread

Such is our thirst to make primal forms of the earth
That we bleed in our sight we bleed for a faceless delight

And comes a display, already fading away
Never finally formed, just sometimes rendered from raw

This is your breath
A monument to your only thread

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released July 8, 2019

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Unwavering Edinburgh, UK

Purveyor of subterranean folk "tinged" with drone

"what a Stone Roses LP may have sounded like if they had left Mani and Reni at home and where more down for it than up. This is a quite beautiful album; melodies melancholy and a bewitching scenic beauty weave a hypnotic spell."

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