The writing and recording of Salt Lake City’s Harvest of Ash second full length album was a dark time for the band. Lineup changes and injuries stopped the band for months at a time. Yet, they took all of this calamity and channeled it into a new album about confronting and overcoming chaos. What they produced is a new album, titled “Castaway.”
Purchase and Stream the first single and title-track on Bandcamp:
In “Castaway,” Harvest of Ash has excavated the crevasses of calamity and emerged with an uncompromisingly filthy and punishing, yet skillfully crafted, work.
Lyrically, it charts a journey from self-criticism and feelings of rejection to being happy with who you are and what you have become as a person. A main theme of the work is the idea of amor fati, or love of fate. This is the notion of living life in an authentic way, embracing every decision and path taken – good and bad – as uniquely your own, that you would do everything the same way again. This makes “Castaway” a deeply personal statement about when you feel the bottom has dropped out of your life, and reclaiming value in yourself during these times.
Pre-Order the album on Bandcamp: https://harvestofash.bandcamp.com/album/castaway
Tracklist:
01. Castaway
02. Embracing
03. Shine
04. Constellation
05. Of beloved flame
Lineup:
Pepper Glass / Guitar and Vocals
Mike DiTullio / Drums and Percussion
Ben Dodds / Bass
