“Bright White” finds Lost Walks departing from the brooding, Gothic Americana of its 2017 debut album Wolf, Woman, Man. There has always been an orchestral aspect to the group’s music but this song in particular from the 2021 album Blood Lantern shows how Lost Walks uses the spacious tranquility that made its earlier material so compelling and inviting to fill with distorted drones and lines of granular melody and heavy, hanging guitar riffs that help the contemplative vocals stand out and uplift the spirit of this track filled with the imagery of menace and the aftermath of violent conflict. The emotional colorings and structure of the song suggest frantic movement to express the mythological dimension of this cyclic ritual of destruction and rebuilding and regretting the senselessness of not learning from repeating these self-catastrophic patterns. Fans of Swans and the more recent work of Wovenhand will greatly appreciate this song in particular and the album in general for the emotional heft and intensity of the songwriting and the way the music is both transcendent and gritty. Listen to “Bright White” on Spotify and connect with Lost Walks at the links provided.
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