Liturgy have been making a splash with their transcendental
black metal opus Aesthethica in recent months and are set to
embark on a brief tour supporting Diplo and Sleigh Bells in their home state of
Florida! See below for dates!
"Aesthethica is inventive, alive, and shrieking with
more ideas than many bands explore over an entire career." - Pitchfork
"Aesthethica is a disorienting yet exhilarating listen through and throughŠ Any music that smartly pushes black metal forward, outward, or sideways is a welcome stepŠ This is music that creates a new history." - NPR
"Brooklynites Liturgy have taken black metal's primal scream literally and applied it to an experimental frameworkŠ a furious, repetitious, and dissonant salvo carved out of the same mindset that has carried fellow New Yorkers Krallice to acclaimed heights." - Decibel
"Aesthethica is a disorienting yet exhilarating listen through and throughŠ Any music that smartly pushes black metal forward, outward, or sideways is a welcome stepŠ This is music that creates a new history." - NPR
"Brooklynites Liturgy have taken black metal's primal scream literally and applied it to an experimental frameworkŠ a furious, repetitious, and dissonant salvo carved out of the same mindset that has carried fellow New Yorkers Krallice to acclaimed heights." - Decibel
"Liturgy might just seem like the next great leap
forward in extreme music." - EMusic
On with the show details:
Thursday, February 9th @ Free Bird Cafe
With special guests Diplo and Sleigh Bells!
Tickets are $23 in advance and $25 day of show.
Doors at 8:00 PM. Show at 8:30 PM.
TOUR DATES
Feb 1 Durham, NC
Duke Coffeehouse
Feb 2 Atlanta, GA
The Masquerade
Feb 3 Gainesville, FL
Florida Theater w/Sleigh Bells,
Diplo
Feb 4 Tampa,
FL
The Ritz w/Sleigh Bells, Diplo
Feb 6 Pensacola, FL
Vinyl Music Hall w/Sleigh Bells,
Diplo
Feb 7 Tallahassee, FL
The Moon w/Sleigh Bells, Diplo
Feb 9 Jacksonville,
FL
Free Bird Cafe w/Sleigh Bells, Diplo
Feb 10 Orlando, FL
Firestone Live w/Sleigh Bells, Diplo
Feb 11 Fort Lauderdale, FL
Revolution w/Sleigh Bells, Diplo
Feb 14 Miami, FL
Grand Central w/Sleigh Bells, Diplo
Feb 18 New York, NY
Webster Hall w/Zola Jesus
LITURGY // AESTHETHICA
Brooklyn based Liturgy is Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Greg Fox,
Tyler Dusenbury, and Bernard Gann. Aesthethica, their second album and third
release, shows the band exploring, in greater depth, themes initially touched
on by their critically acclaimed debut album, Renihilation. The band used every
instrument, literal or figurative, to produce meaning and intensity,
disregarding the genre boundaries of black metal, hardcore and experimental
music.
On Renihilation, Liturgy made use of simple song structures, and concentrated on sustaining a blindingly high intensity level from start to finish. Aesthethica, a more controlled and polyvalent effort, finds the band operating at multiple levels and using more varied forms. The music is both elaborately crafted and chaotically performed. Songs often begin in the form of a simple chant or hypnotic abstraction, then evolve into something dense and complex. A constant sensitivity to the states of attention that different musical patterns activate and foster, yields a paradoxical result: the more complex the music, the simpler the message. Cycling through the fundamental modes of being: stasis, chaos, repetition and entelechy, Aesthethica is a metaphorical exercise in affirmation.
The record is a unified whole. A major concern, sonically and lyrically, is the question of what it is to be meaningful, and how intensity relates to emotion or affect. Many of the songs activate and manipulate cliches relating to heroism, tragedy, hope, and so on by connecting black metal techniques to the spirit of film score writing (Vangelis, Badalamenti) and post-Romanticism (Scriabin, Sibelius). "High Gold" presents a vision of apocalypse, "Harmonia" presents a judgment on the meaning of life, and so on. The resulting collection of songs, at once, embodies and transcends these tropes. The music is supersaturated with lofty melodies and lyrics, bursting with frenzied execution, and builds to a boiling point of chaos, distorting all meaning and distilling to reveal the raw core of pure sonic joy. Liturgy surrounds these fractured islands of meaning with a sea of a-signifying ritual repetition and sound (Branca, Sleep, Lightning Bolt). Tear at the seams of the straitjacket of ordinary life, release the energy from the field of potentiality that it binds, enter the realm of the good and the beautiful, so commands Aesthethica.
On Renihilation, Liturgy made use of simple song structures, and concentrated on sustaining a blindingly high intensity level from start to finish. Aesthethica, a more controlled and polyvalent effort, finds the band operating at multiple levels and using more varied forms. The music is both elaborately crafted and chaotically performed. Songs often begin in the form of a simple chant or hypnotic abstraction, then evolve into something dense and complex. A constant sensitivity to the states of attention that different musical patterns activate and foster, yields a paradoxical result: the more complex the music, the simpler the message. Cycling through the fundamental modes of being: stasis, chaos, repetition and entelechy, Aesthethica is a metaphorical exercise in affirmation.
The record is a unified whole. A major concern, sonically and lyrically, is the question of what it is to be meaningful, and how intensity relates to emotion or affect. Many of the songs activate and manipulate cliches relating to heroism, tragedy, hope, and so on by connecting black metal techniques to the spirit of film score writing (Vangelis, Badalamenti) and post-Romanticism (Scriabin, Sibelius). "High Gold" presents a vision of apocalypse, "Harmonia" presents a judgment on the meaning of life, and so on. The resulting collection of songs, at once, embodies and transcends these tropes. The music is supersaturated with lofty melodies and lyrics, bursting with frenzied execution, and builds to a boiling point of chaos, distorting all meaning and distilling to reveal the raw core of pure sonic joy. Liturgy surrounds these fractured islands of meaning with a sea of a-signifying ritual repetition and sound (Branca, Sleep, Lightning Bolt). Tear at the seams of the straitjacket of ordinary life, release the energy from the field of potentiality that it binds, enter the realm of the good and the beautiful, so commands Aesthethica.
Highly technical musicianship, poetico-mystical gesturing, and a minimal directness; all singular elements, whose interactions and reactions are contained in and bursting from a black metal framework. Revelatory contrasts presented in an intensely physical performance whose energy is palpable and whose abatement is as illuminating as its arrival.
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