Visionist dives into a chasm of deep introspection with this suite of smudged ambient textures and ghostly vocals.
Louis Carnell's third album as Visionist, "A Call To Arms" swerves the synthetic deconstructions of his debut "Safe" and the noisy, post-industrial grind of 2017's follow-up "Value". Here, Carnell channels light and dark elements, pairing slithering rumbles with operatic highs and enlisting a cadre of collaborators. He even explores the possibilities of his own voice for the first time, singing vulnerable phrases over torched doomscapes.
Opener 'By Design' has Childhood's Ben Romans Hopcraft on vocal duties, crooning in circling waves around wobbly sub bass and spooky waves of static. It's something like Arca's decadent 'Madre', Scott Walker's "Drift" and Antony and the Johnsons, but more introverted. As the album progresses, Carnell carefully reveals his own shy tones, draping his words uncomfortably around shivering foley percussion and grimbient drones.
Most successful is the album's extended eight-minute centerpiece 'Nearly God', which doesn't feature Tricky but does focus around a wonderfully brittle overdriven beat that eventually gives way to tape-munged church bells and looped vocal washes. Elsewhere, Carnell gets assists from Black Midi's Morgan Simpson, Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Ben Vince. It's a bold statement that fades his early Visionist material into the fog of history.
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Visionist dives into a chasm of deep introspection with this suite of smudged ambient textures and ghostly vocals.
Louis Carnell's third album as Visionist, "A Call To Arms" swerves the synthetic deconstructions of his debut "Safe" and the noisy, post-industrial grind of 2017's follow-up "Value". Here, Carnell channels light and dark elements, pairing slithering rumbles with operatic highs and enlisting a cadre of collaborators. He even explores the possibilities of his own voice for the first time, singing vulnerable phrases over torched doomscapes.
Opener 'By Design' has Childhood's Ben Romans Hopcraft on vocal duties, crooning in circling waves around wobbly sub bass and spooky waves of static. It's something like Arca's decadent 'Madre', Scott Walker's "Drift" and Antony and the Johnsons, but more introverted. As the album progresses, Carnell carefully reveals his own shy tones, draping his words uncomfortably around shivering foley percussion and grimbient drones.
Most successful is the album's extended eight-minute centerpiece 'Nearly God', which doesn't feature Tricky but does focus around a wonderfully brittle overdriven beat that eventually gives way to tape-munged church bells and looped vocal washes. Elsewhere, Carnell gets assists from Black Midi's Morgan Simpson, Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Ben Vince. It's a bold statement that fades his early Visionist material into the fog of history.
Visionist dives into a chasm of deep introspection with this suite of smudged ambient textures and ghostly vocals.
Louis Carnell's third album as Visionist, "A Call To Arms" swerves the synthetic deconstructions of his debut "Safe" and the noisy, post-industrial grind of 2017's follow-up "Value". Here, Carnell channels light and dark elements, pairing slithering rumbles with operatic highs and enlisting a cadre of collaborators. He even explores the possibilities of his own voice for the first time, singing vulnerable phrases over torched doomscapes.
Opener 'By Design' has Childhood's Ben Romans Hopcraft on vocal duties, crooning in circling waves around wobbly sub bass and spooky waves of static. It's something like Arca's decadent 'Madre', Scott Walker's "Drift" and Antony and the Johnsons, but more introverted. As the album progresses, Carnell carefully reveals his own shy tones, draping his words uncomfortably around shivering foley percussion and grimbient drones.
Most successful is the album's extended eight-minute centerpiece 'Nearly God', which doesn't feature Tricky but does focus around a wonderfully brittle overdriven beat that eventually gives way to tape-munged church bells and looped vocal washes. Elsewhere, Carnell gets assists from Black Midi's Morgan Simpson, Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Ben Vince. It's a bold statement that fades his early Visionist material into the fog of history.
Visionist dives into a chasm of deep introspection with this suite of smudged ambient textures and ghostly vocals.
Louis Carnell's third album as Visionist, "A Call To Arms" swerves the synthetic deconstructions of his debut "Safe" and the noisy, post-industrial grind of 2017's follow-up "Value". Here, Carnell channels light and dark elements, pairing slithering rumbles with operatic highs and enlisting a cadre of collaborators. He even explores the possibilities of his own voice for the first time, singing vulnerable phrases over torched doomscapes.
Opener 'By Design' has Childhood's Ben Romans Hopcraft on vocal duties, crooning in circling waves around wobbly sub bass and spooky waves of static. It's something like Arca's decadent 'Madre', Scott Walker's "Drift" and Antony and the Johnsons, but more introverted. As the album progresses, Carnell carefully reveals his own shy tones, draping his words uncomfortably around shivering foley percussion and grimbient drones.
Most successful is the album's extended eight-minute centerpiece 'Nearly God', which doesn't feature Tricky but does focus around a wonderfully brittle overdriven beat that eventually gives way to tape-munged church bells and looped vocal washes. Elsewhere, Carnell gets assists from Black Midi's Morgan Simpson, Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Ben Vince. It's a bold statement that fades his early Visionist material into the fog of history.
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Visionist dives into a chasm of deep introspection with this suite of smudged ambient textures and ghostly vocals.
Louis Carnell's third album as Visionist, "A Call To Arms" swerves the synthetic deconstructions of his debut "Safe" and the noisy, post-industrial grind of 2017's follow-up "Value". Here, Carnell channels light and dark elements, pairing slithering rumbles with operatic highs and enlisting a cadre of collaborators. He even explores the possibilities of his own voice for the first time, singing vulnerable phrases over torched doomscapes.
Opener 'By Design' has Childhood's Ben Romans Hopcraft on vocal duties, crooning in circling waves around wobbly sub bass and spooky waves of static. It's something like Arca's decadent 'Madre', Scott Walker's "Drift" and Antony and the Johnsons, but more introverted. As the album progresses, Carnell carefully reveals his own shy tones, draping his words uncomfortably around shivering foley percussion and grimbient drones.
Most successful is the album's extended eight-minute centerpiece 'Nearly God', which doesn't feature Tricky but does focus around a wonderfully brittle overdriven beat that eventually gives way to tape-munged church bells and looped vocal washes. Elsewhere, Carnell gets assists from Black Midi's Morgan Simpson, Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Ben Vince. It's a bold statement that fades his early Visionist material into the fog of history.
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Visionist dives into a chasm of deep introspection with this suite of smudged ambient textures and ghostly vocals.
Louis Carnell's third album as Visionist, "A Call To Arms" swerves the synthetic deconstructions of his debut "Safe" and the noisy, post-industrial grind of 2017's follow-up "Value". Here, Carnell channels light and dark elements, pairing slithering rumbles with operatic highs and enlisting a cadre of collaborators. He even explores the possibilities of his own voice for the first time, singing vulnerable phrases over torched doomscapes.
Opener 'By Design' has Childhood's Ben Romans Hopcraft on vocal duties, crooning in circling waves around wobbly sub bass and spooky waves of static. It's something like Arca's decadent 'Madre', Scott Walker's "Drift" and Antony and the Johnsons, but more introverted. As the album progresses, Carnell carefully reveals his own shy tones, draping his words uncomfortably around shivering foley percussion and grimbient drones.
Most successful is the album's extended eight-minute centerpiece 'Nearly God', which doesn't feature Tricky but does focus around a wonderfully brittle overdriven beat that eventually gives way to tape-munged church bells and looped vocal washes. Elsewhere, Carnell gets assists from Black Midi's Morgan Simpson, Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Ben Vince. It's a bold statement that fades his early Visionist material into the fog of history.