Dragonscales & Lambskin is an EP but it's pretty long for an EP at nearly 40 minutes of music, four of the five tracks being average song lengths. But the final, title track is a twenty minute long epic of ambient movements that bookend a short middle movement that breaks up the thick atmospheric fog of loops, drones and twinkling sounds for a simple instrumental garage ballad that plays out a tender guitar melody against maracas and tambourine only to be swallowed up once again by the dense foreboding ambiance. As this track and the rest of the songs attest to, Dragonscales & Lambskin is largely an ambient record. Many of these tracks were recorded during the end of the summer while I've been recording material for an upcoming LP to be titled Lily of the Valley, and most of these songs were originally intended for that album but as the amount of material for Lily has been building up to be wildly diverse in styles I decided to create a separate EP with the more experimental, droney tracks. In fact, the rest of the Lily songs have become so distinctly one style (psych-folk) or another (krautrock, post-punk) that from that divided bulk will come two separate LPs now instead of the intended one. So stay tuned for those upcoming albums but for now, this is a fine preview of this past summer's recording labors.
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DRAGONSCALES & LAMBSKIN (EP)
