Grails - The Burden Of Hope LP

Grails don’t mince words. Awesomely communicative but entirely instrumental, this dynamic band’s violin, guitars, piano, and drums collide with sober melodies and massive emotion.

At alternate moments, Grails can sound vaguely classical, Eastern European, Irish, like the lost tapes of Pauline Oliveros, and, you know, rock. They’re not really like anything else on the Neurot roster, but they’ve got something in common with all the Neurot bands: a commitment to intense music that forges new paths and, yeah, communicates in the most real way possible.

Grails have their fair share of ambient noise - shivery violins, a trickle of a high-hat, the amplified scrape of a guitar string - but their music is based on strong, narrative melodies that resonate in the heart. At times it sounds delicate, but they never cower; Grails roar, even when they’re being quiet.

"The Burden of Hope" is the debut LP, following a pair of self-released, eponymous EP’s in 2000 and 2002. The LP is the culmination of a year’s worth of recordings, including a reinterpretation of Sun City Girls’ classic Space Prophet Dogon.

Tracklist:

1. The Burden of Hope
2. Lord I Hate Your Day
3. The Deed
4. In the Beginning
5. Invocation
6. Space Prophet Dragon
7. The March
8. Broken Ballad
9. White Flag
10. Canyon Hymn

About this product: this is the 20th anniversary pressing on 'Beer' colour vinyl.