Eternity lies within or Nowhere
Canaan Balsam uses dusky, cinematic strings and emotive spoken word passages on their second solo full-length to evoke an isolationist mood where light just peeks out from beyond the darkness. RIYL Dean Hurley, Romance, Machinefabriek or Perila.
Since leaving Halcyon Veil double-act NAKED, Canaan Balsam has constructed an alternate musical universe. First explored on 2020's 'Cruise Utopia', they used field recordings, found sounds and a plethora of tools to make modern devotional music, a mid-point between celestial new age sounds and shadowy industrial ambient. 'Eternity lies within or nowhere' propels Balsam's dusted, isolationist wisps to the next level, focusing its energy on the blurred line between connectedness and solitude. They cite religious intensity as a key influence, and that devotional mood buoys the album, led by Balsam's low mumbles and ornate Hollywood noir strings.
The music's fusion of darkness and celestial light isn't far from Romance's kitsch ambient melancholia, or Dean Hurley's Lynchian soundscaping, but Balsam's approach is a little more folk horror. He describes it as "music you could wear like an amulet, like a spell, like a religious medal around your neck,". On 'A passive apocalypse' he drawls almost too quietly over rousing strings that become choral phrases, as if leading a quiet sermon in a church's back room. Psychedelic electronics slice through the drone, as crashing waves of noise bring us to a crippling crescendo before the track fizzles out with muted organ blasts. 'Eternity lies within or nowhere' is the best of the bunch, evolving from day zero side room chordage into a saturated, tape-damaged fizz that practically calls to the heavens.
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Canaan Balsam uses dusky, cinematic strings and emotive spoken word passages on their second solo full-length to evoke an isolationist mood where light just peeks out from beyond the darkness. RIYL Dean Hurley, Romance, Machinefabriek or Perila.
Since leaving Halcyon Veil double-act NAKED, Canaan Balsam has constructed an alternate musical universe. First explored on 2020's 'Cruise Utopia', they used field recordings, found sounds and a plethora of tools to make modern devotional music, a mid-point between celestial new age sounds and shadowy industrial ambient. 'Eternity lies within or nowhere' propels Balsam's dusted, isolationist wisps to the next level, focusing its energy on the blurred line between connectedness and solitude. They cite religious intensity as a key influence, and that devotional mood buoys the album, led by Balsam's low mumbles and ornate Hollywood noir strings.
The music's fusion of darkness and celestial light isn't far from Romance's kitsch ambient melancholia, or Dean Hurley's Lynchian soundscaping, but Balsam's approach is a little more folk horror. He describes it as "music you could wear like an amulet, like a spell, like a religious medal around your neck,". On 'A passive apocalypse' he drawls almost too quietly over rousing strings that become choral phrases, as if leading a quiet sermon in a church's back room. Psychedelic electronics slice through the drone, as crashing waves of noise bring us to a crippling crescendo before the track fizzles out with muted organ blasts. 'Eternity lies within or nowhere' is the best of the bunch, evolving from day zero side room chordage into a saturated, tape-damaged fizz that practically calls to the heavens.