After so many years listening to an overwhelming amount of music, it’s hard for a band to surprise me with their sound. But as soon as the first tones of AINSOPH‘s new single “Seven Mouths in the Neck” poured into my ear canals, I knew I was listening to something different. I found myself treading post-punk ground when an icy blackened gale surrounded me, creating an eerie, bleak atmosphere I wasn’t expecting. It’s not that this band peppers their post punk with blastbeats and unearthly shrieks, its more the depressive ether that encompasses the track like sonic suffocation. It’s brilliant. “Seven Mouths in the Neck” is off their record Affection and Vengeance March 14th via Wolves Of Hades — pre-order it here. Check out our exclusive stream below…
With material that feels this personal, primal, and spiritual, it can be quite hard to explain anything about it, really.
That being said, out of all the material on this LP, “Seven Mouths in the Neck”’” is probably the song that wrote itself the earliest in the process. It is about more than the conflict against the primal urge to be truly home.
It could be said it is the best example of how Affection and Vengeance has functioned as both an outlet as well as a dream journal, even though the absolute concept of all parts is actually quite cohesive.
Overall, during the writing process and pre-production, we really valued how it all developed organically. Even through changing times, dormant memories, entities, and sentiments will always push to creep back.
This LP was meant to capture the duality of their, and so our, nature, in whichever way you can illustrate.
We hope you take in arms “Seven Mouths in the Neck.”
