- Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...
Infobox Album | Name = Lover, The Lord Has Left Us...
Type =Album
Artist =The Sound of Animals Fighting
Released =May 30 ,2006
Recorded = 2005
Genre =Experimental rock
Length = 54:25
Label =Equal Vision Records
Producer = Rich Balling
Reviews = *AbsolutePunk.net (53%) [http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=141001 link]
Last album = "Tiger and the Duke " (2005)
This album = "Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..." (2006)
Next album = "The Ocean and the Sun (2008)"Lover, the Lord has Left Us..." is the second album by the
experimental rock bandThe Sound of Animals Fighting . The album was released onMay 30 ,2006 throughEqual Vision Records but will still use Rich Balling's Stars & Satellites imprint. [ [http://www.thesoundofanimalsfighting.com/love/ The Sound of Animals Fighting ] ]The album contains songs with considerably different
tempos than the songs on the band's last album. "Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" utilizes kitchen sounds and a Germanopera singer . [ [http://www.leakmob.com/showthread.php?t=1408] Dead link|date=March 2008] "Un'aria" and "Un'aria Ancora" area cappella tracks sung by Craig Owens ofChiodos in a femininefalsetto . On a recent Podcast "The Nightingale" aka Richard Balling mentioned that the names of the songs on the album all contain a similar element.Track listing
#"Intro" – 0:40
#"Un'aria" – 1:05 (Italian for "An Air")
#"Skullflower" – 4:13
#"My Horse Must Lose" – 4:21
#"Chiriacho Summit" – 1:30
#"Horses in the Sky" – 5:21
#"Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" – 8:03 (German for "Stockhausen, It is your brain that I seek")
#"Prayers on Fire" – 3:29
#"The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By the Sea" – 1:41
#"This Heat" – 10:35
#"Un'aria Ancora" – 0:39 (Italian for "An Air Again")
#"St. Broadrick is in Antarctica" – 3:00
#"The Heretic" – 5:01
#"There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us" – 6:34Personnel
Additional Notes
Musical Styling
"Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..." is considerably different from "Tiger and the Duke" in many aspects. The music centers on electronic instruments such as synthesizers, drum machines, and computer-based music programs, rather than guitars or drums. "Tiger and the Duke" has a more band-oriented sound, whereas "Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..." has a more collaborative feel. There also exists great variation between different tracks. For example, "Prayers on Fire" has a considerably ethnic feel, due to Sanskrit vocalizations and samplings of a sitar. In contrast, "Horses in the Sky" is laden with heavy, incomprehensible drum n' bass grooves, though the chorus is much more organized and coherent. "The Heretic" is a soft ballad with rich, flowing string arrangements and lyrics associated with the burning of a heretic.
*The title "Lover, the Lord Has Left Us..." is a line from a song by
Planes Mistaken for Stars generously donated for use by frontmanGared O'Donnell prior to the lyric's release on their last album "Mercy."*On April 11, 2006, the band released "Skullflower" on their
purevolume account.*Skullflower contains a sample from the Neurosis song, "A Sun that Never Sets"
*Skullflower also contains a sample of a
Propellerhead Reason (Reason 3.0) demonstrative track.*"The Golden Boy That was Swallowed by the Sea" is also a Swans song, although this isn't a direct cover.
*"The Heretic" includes lyrics that relate to a song discussing similar themes on "Tiger and the Duke" called "Act II: All is Ash or the Light Shining Through It." Both songs include the phrases, "Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it." The lyrics allude to a poem entitled "Anorexic" [ [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem9.html Anorexic ] ] by
Eavan Boland . Other lyrics in the song continue this idea.*Rich Balling's father sings on "There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us".
*The album's pre-orders are being shipped with limited edition
t-shirts , one available through interpunk and smartpunk, and another through merchnow. The designs are by artist Colin Strandberg.*The connecting element in the song titles can be a reference to music artists. "St. Broadrick is in Antarctica" may refer to
Justin Broadrick , whose bandGodflesh is listed as influence on The Sound of Animals Fighting. [ [http://thesoundofanimalsfighting.com/love/content/culture_inspiration.html The Sound of Animals Fighting ] ] Furthermore, there are bands who are actually calledSkullflower andThis Heat .Horses in the Sky is a reference to the album byThee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band *"Chiriacho Summit" is also a song by the post-hardcore group
Frodus .Different languages in songs
*On the track "My Horse Must Lose", a woman speaks in a foreign language at the beginning and end, thought by many to be German. But the language spoken is Persian, and translates to "Look! Look! Look up in the sky! I've seen my destiny! My horse must lose, hahaha!" and at the end "I will answer your voice, directly. It's the sound of my breath."Fact|date=July 2007
* "Skullflower" features a woman singing a central Hindu prayer in
Sanskrit : "Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya / Mrityor ma amritam gamaya"which translates to: "Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to immortality."
* The language of the woman's voice sample at the beginning of "Horses in the Sky" is of theNavajo Language .Fact|date=October 2007* The opera singer in "Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" takes her lyrical abstracts from a German poem of the Romatic era by Friedrich Rückert called "Warum willst du and're fragen," later set to song by Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann in a 3 song cycle written in 1841. The text is written in an older archaic form, making it difficult for translation by those who aren't familiar with the grammatical structure spoken and sung during the mid 1800s. The lyrics are taken from the first and last lines of the song. In German, "Warum willst du and're fragen...Sieh mein Aug', ich liebe dich!" Loosely translated in English, "Why will you question others...See my eyes: I love you!"
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