A Plague of Shadows, by The Northern Lighthouse Board

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Roger Linney (Reverb Worship) “I'm always really pleased to release new music from The Northern Lighthouse Board. This one is my fourth release with them and turned up without any warning.

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A Plague Of Shadows
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The Northern Lighthouse Board seem to have created a genre all of their very own. This continues again on their superb new a album entitled “A Plague Of Shadows". This cd contains fourteen tracks of creepy, cinematic atmospheric soundscapes.

This is a handmade individually numbered edition of 50 copies in rustic rustically made white card sleeves with paste on artwork.

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“A Plague Of Shadows is thirty-odd minutes of ethereal electronics calling to mind Coil at their most minimalist with moments of Tangerine Dream and Bohren & Der Club of Gore...

Atmospheric, emotive, unusual, and engaging. When the lights are low and the night is quiet, these are sounds to capture and illuminate your thoughts. The soundtrack to your own reflections and reckonings: reliving the past, weighing the future, and trying to make some sense of the present...

A Plague Of Shadows reminds me of how Tangerine Dream could score a film with electronics that felt ancient, timeless, and otherworldly. The Northern Lighthouse Board have the same skill of creating sounds that exist in their own undefinable space, but they manage to do this with impressively minimal compositions. Brief but vivid sonic imagery that manifests and fades within the same piece" (The Sleeping Shaman)

www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/northern-lighthouse-board-plague-shadows/

"I know very little about Northern Lighthouse Board aside from the fact that I own 2 or 3 physical artefacts of theirs (all via the wonderful Reverb Worship label - more on that later) - I have no idea who they are or where they dwell. I do know, however, that they (could be just a he/she for all I know) make music that is eerily beautiful. In their own words they make "soundscapes for Victorian seances and nocturnal forest gatherings, Abandoned lighthouses, possessed goats, occulted moons and haunted dolls houses."

'A Plague of Shadows' follows in the footsteps of 'The Spirit Cabinet', 'The Wych Elm' and a S/T album released by Reverb Worship. For those that are not au fait with Reverb Worship, I would thoroughly recommend that you rectify that ASAP. They excel in bringing to the public music that would sadly not get much exposure. A look through their 500 or so releases (with sublabels sleep FUSE and Future Grave) highlights the excellent taste and curation skills of founder Roger Linney. The label has championed many heroes of the folky outsider scene, artists such as Grey Malkin, Trappist Afterland and Kitchen Cynics amongst many, many others. It's not just folk though, the label has also given release to such luminaries as Japanese psych maestro Kawabata Makoto and electronic experimentalist Stuart Chalmers. As I said, it's really worth a delve through the back catalogue.

Back to 'A Plague of Shadows'. To sum it up in one word is a futile act, but that word would be 'creepy'. A lot of 'alt-folk' acts use Lovecraft as a muse, throwing in references to Cthulu etc but Northern Lighthouse Board would be appear to be firmly in the M.R.James/Arthur Machen camp - there is a distinctly British feel about the otherworldly sounds they produce. Musically the album relies on rich swathes of synths to create the eerie atmospheres - it's all very slow, mournful and unearthly, in places redolent of the dark ambience of Lustmord. There is variety however - 'The Fox Sisters' for example has some sublime guitar work, bordering on American primitive but still managing to retain a sense of place. Other tracks are lifted with some very 'Suspiria' like bells. Samples and found sounds are used throughout the album to very great effect. The 'Suspiria' nod is very apt actually as 'A Plague of Shadows' would work perfectly as the soundtrack to a long-lost seventies movie, maybe not an Argento film with their bright, lavish colours but something more uncanny and ghostly.

It is another unmitigated success for The Northern Lighthouse Board and Reverb Worship. One of the reasons I started this blog was to spread some light on special releases such as this, in this world of never ending Coldplay vinyl re-issues and over-hyped artists (and over-inflated egos). Give this a listen and if you like it, buy it," (Colonel Awkward blog)

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"UK-based project The Northern Lighthouse Board brings us another album of creepy cinema-worthy sounds reminiscent of the past. However, if many other artists choose to take us to the past of the 70s, 80s, or even 90s; A Plague of Shadows goes a step further to take us back to the 1870s or even the 1770s. A time of still rampant superstition despite increasing understanding of the world, listening to this album seems to call back to the days of widespread disease that could only be considered a curse by those afflicted.

The entire album is an atmospheric journey through what feels like frightening misery. Scenes that come to mind as I listened were those of dimly lit cobblestone streets and carts of bodies being pulled along as they were taken to be disposed of. These scenes are created through the use of a variety of odd sounds, many of which are synthesized callbacks to the instruments of centuries ago such as pipe organs, wooden whistles, and even accordion-like sounds while others are the strange and modern warped synths that have created horrifying scenes for years. These old and new sounds blend together masterfully alongside foley work that creates distinguishable sounds as flowing water and soft mumbling in the dark as well as strange indistinguishable sounds that carry a foreboding atmosphere," (On the Fringes of Sound)

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Soundscapes for Victorian séances and nocturnal forest gatherings. Abandoned lighthouses, possessed goats, occulted moons and haunted doll houses.

Contact: thehaunteddollshouse@gmail.com

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