A song cycle of extraordinary emotion, power and precision that’s strongly influenced by the likes of Michael Nyman and Phillip Glass. Gareth S. Brown has such a distinctive way with a melody that every composition is fully his own – haunting string and oboe lines glide effortlessly over repetitive percussive xylophone and vibraphone.
The title track is reminiscent of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Rain (I want a divorce)’, The Blue Nile’s ‘Walk Across the Rooftops’ and Burial’s ‘Archangel’ in its rain-drenched beauty whilst ‘First Re-appearance’ takes the minimalist approach to its ultimate conclusion only revealing its warped melody after several minutes of churning loops like a neo-classical take on Third Eye Foundations off-kilter discordance.
The Gallows has grown into a double album so Royal College O’ Surgeons, an album compiling tracks recorded during The Gallows and Iron Henry sessions, could also be included.
As well as The Gallows and Royal College O’ Surgeons, the first 50 orders received another CD entitled Early Mammals, an exclusive, numbered and hand stamped full length bonus CD, described by Mr Brown as “based on an idea by Brian Eno [...] that doesn’t sound anything like Brian Eno”. Starting off as a beautiful baroque orchestral piece, it changes and mutates over the course of its 45 minutes into something much more ambient and non-linear, akin to a Morton Feldman sound experiment.
Songs on The Gallows
- An Attack of the Good CAuse
- Listing Vampyre
- Sprung
- Serpent
- Gallows
- Two Herons & Critical Goose
- Tyburn
- First Reappearance
Songs on Royal College O’ Surgeons
- Vaults
- Jars
- Great Argonaut
- Son House
- Madrigal
- Earlier, I Thought I Saw John Dee
- Missing Unit
- Specimen
- Sandpiper
- You Musn’t Stop Clapping or You Will Die, You Will Die
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