An Evening Redness will release their stunning self-titled debut full-length on February 25, 2022 via Transylvanian Recordings. The label unveiled the video teaser for the track “Mesa Skyline” available for stream through the YouTube player below:
An Evening Redness is parched Desert Drone Doom and the sound of thunder over the mountains. Evoking the hallucinatory clarity of the alkali plains and the biblical violence of its literary namesake, the collective bursts from obscurity with a fusion of sounds that seem incompatible on paper but prove blindingly innovative in action.
Deeply introspective and evoking hallucinatory darkness, An Evening Redness‘ self-titled debut is the newest release from Brandon Elkins. Composed, arranged, and produced by Elkins, the offering is a masterwork of diverse Ambient Doom and Post-Ambient composition, with the minimalism of Earth contrasted with passages that wouldn’t feel out of place on Jesu’s Opiate Sun. An ensemble of musical talents including vocalist Bridget Bellavia (BLKTXXTH, Piggy Black Cross), guest soloist Brendan Sloan (Convulsing), and session drummer Ryan Jewell (Riley Walker and many others) serve to underscore the drama and focused production contained within the album’s six tracks.
What ties the whole album together is an atmosphere that feels spiritually closer to a film score than what you’d expect from a solo record. Notes Elkins: “I wanted to make music that sounds like how Blood Meridian reads. Lonely, high plains insanity, sudden bursts of violence, longing melodies, ambient isolation.” Elkins’ work has always been hard to pin down, but this feels like a culmination of not only the best elements of his many projects – but the compositional mastery that can only come from decades of refined craft. With the intensity of modern doom masters like Bell Witch and the emotional and musical dexterity of Neko Case at peak powers.
An Evening Redness will be released on CD, vinyl, and digital formats. Find preorders at here: https://transylvaniantapes.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-redness
Tracklist:
1. Alkali 12:00
2. Mesa Skyline 06:31
3. Winter, 1847 08:54
4. The Judge 10:38
5. Pariah 06:23
6. Black Flame at the Edge of the Desert 10:07
