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ARTIST
COTTON, ALISON
TITLE
Only Darkness Now
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS/CARDINAL FUZZ
CATALOG #
FTR 564LP
FTR 564LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
11/6/2020
"Here is the second solo LP by the wonderful London-based singer/multi-instrumentalist
Alison Cotton
. Originally issued on cassette by the mighty Bloxham Tapes, just about everyone who heard
Only Darkness Now
suggested it might make for an excellent LP. And hey -- they were right. Alison's debut LP
All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre
(FTR 424LP) received wide ranging critical acclaim from placing in the Guardians Writers 'Album Of The Year' to placing in the Quietus 'Albums of the Year'. Ms. Cotton has a storied past performing with
Saloon
and
The Eighteenth Day of May
, and she still may be found doing likewise with
The Left Outsides
. . .
Only Darkness Now
begins with a sidelong instrumental track, 'Behind the Spiderweb Gate,' during which Cotton displays her immense drone chops, organizing rich, thick layers of viola, Omnichord, and voice into the soundtrack for a totally immersive trip. The effect is such that seconds become minutes and as time stretches till eventually, in the peak, time ceases to have any meaning whatsoever -- a beautiful state to be transported too as everything slows down. You could spend a whole year listening to this one. The second side starts with 'In Solitude I Will Fade Away,' a collage of Alison's voice, twinned and then some. It's short and sweet with just a little drumming to move things along. 'How My Heart Bled in Bleeding Heart Yard' brims with as much longing as it title suggests. It opens with a long instrumental passage, emphasizing the human pace of a harmonium's breath patterns, soon joined by a viola, also offering tones of a very human quality. All of this swells into a chorale of immense and mournful depth before being joined by
Nico
-like vocals that raise a wordless alarm. 'The Hill Was Hollow' is a short mystery for percussion and violin. Unravel at your own peril. Finally there is 'Shirt of Lace.' This is a studio recording of one of Alison's regular live covers. The song is by the late
Dorothy Carter
(a visionary American musician whose work bridged experimental and medieval musics) and Cotton's version is a sheer blast -- her vocals curling and twisting high above a supple bed of key drones, string plucks and sliding arco passageways . . . one of the very few albums I can name that matches the cold fire of Nico's
Marble Index
and it does so without taking a single step that isn't purely Alison's own..." --
Byron Coley
, 2020 Edition of 300.
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