US experimental/drone/post-metal trio Locrian unleash new EP »Solar Lodge«, out today via Profound Lore Records
Chicago/Baltimore-based experimental/drone/post-metal trio Locrian has unleashed new EP »Solar Lodge« today, December 1st, 2023 via Profound Lore Records.
»Solar Lodge« is a cover of English new wave/industrial band Coil, originally released on their debut album »Scatology« in 1984.
Tracklist:
01. Solar Lodge
02. Solar Lodge (TV-Crimes Remix)
03. Solar Lodge (Jonathan Canady Remix)
04. Solar Lodge (Paul Riedl Remix)
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Incorporating drums, guitar, synthesizer, vocals, and electronics, Locrian produce some of the most unique and unsettling heavy music today. And the newest »Solar Lodge« EP (available now via Profound Lore Records) is another proof of that. The EP consists of Locrian’s reimagination of Coil’s classic, »Solar Lodge« along with remixes of Locrian’s version of the track by Paul Riedl (Blood Incantation), TV-Crimes (from Dome, a member of Fulci), and Jonathan Canady (Deathpile / Shadow Structure).
“In 2022, we started looking back to the roots of our project, specifically our mutual interest in experimental, avant-garde, and ambient music.” – explains André Foisy. “This examination of our foundation as a group led us back to our shared respect for Coil in how they expanded sonic boundaries and explored unconventional themes. From 2014 through the last time we played live in 2016, we closed our live sets with a cover version of »Solar Lodge«. Last year, we recorded our take on that track, a song that alludes to the Coil’s interest in exploring hidden dimensions of consciousness.”
Photo by Elena Volkova
Complementing the musical part, the band invited Elijah Burgher to create the artwork for »Solar Lodge« EP. Burgher, an artist who works at the crossroads of representation and language, figuration and abstraction, and the real and imagined. All of his works, whether figurative and representational or symbol-based and abstract, merge personal narrative with magic, the occult, and queer aesthetics.
Get »Solar Lodge« EP here:
locrian.bandcamp.com/album/solar-lodge-ep
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well