LP - Grails - Miracle Music

1 LP - limited coloured vinyl

Grails, the experimental rock institution who have cultivated a quarter-century career out of crate-plunging cultural curiosities, returns a mere two years after the lauded "Anches En Maat" with their most personal and emotionally resonant album to date. While the band still revel in rearranging bizarre and obscure sources into something often revelatory and surreal, "Miracle Music" does so with an ascendant melodic power that feels hallowed.

Produced by Grails co-founder Emil Amos, "Miracle Music" reunites the group with recording engineer Jason Powers and his Type Foundry studio in Portland, Oregon, where the earliest Grails records were made more than two decades ago. Replete with acoustic and electric guitars, synths, woodwinds, brass, samples, percussion, and featuring horn arrangements by Kelly Pratt (David Byrne, M. Ward), "Miracle Music" unveils an exquisite new horizon for Grails. Creatively tireless as ever, Grails balance the boundary-pushing claustrophobia of early industrial music with the airy melodies of classical compositions to craft the album's heavy mood.