Name: Love in Shadow
Brand: Sumac

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

THRILL470CD

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Packaged in a 4 Panel Mini-LP Style High Gloss Gatefold Jacket. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-09-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0790377047028

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sumac

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Thrill Jockey

Love is what makes us human. It guides our decisions, shapes our worldview, and defines our experiences. Its absence equates to tragedy while its presence gives our lives meaning. “Love has been well worn theme throughout a lot of rock music, but most commonly in terms of love-lost, overly romanticized versions of new love, or as a veil for sexual conquest,” says Sumac guitarist and vocalist Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer, ISIS). “It is rarely addressed in its more spiritual and vulnerable aspects.” Those less-traversed territories of humankind’s connective bond became the central theme Sumac’s third full-length album, Love In Shadow, though their explorations of that motif are a far cry from traditional manifestations of love in the realm of art. Across four protracted songs, Turner and his cohorts -Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists, Erosion) on drums and Brian Cook (Russian Circles) on bass - interlace and mangle sounds from their instruments in a sonic homage to both the innate warmth of human magnetism and the cold realities of corrupted love - jealousy, obsession, perversion, addiction. Listeners who followed the Northwest trio down the tangled briar of mathematical riffs and hypnotic battery on The Deal or through the unfettered eruptions and methodical dissonance of What One Becomes are aware that Sumac eschews the conventional balladry typically associated with odes to our spiritual connectedness. Saccharine sweetness or fatalistic tales of unrequited affection are nowhere to be found on Love In Shadow. Over the album’s hour-plus length, the band employs minimal tools to achieve a maximum overview of visceral passions.

2LP - Double Virgin Vinyl, Packaged in a Wide Spine Jacket Printed on Uncoated Stock with Custom High Gloss Slipcase.

CD - Packaged in a 4 Panel Mini-LP Style High Gloss Gatefold Jacket.

2LP+ - Limited Double Pink with Balck Streaks Vinyl, Packaged in a Wide Spine Jacket Printed on Uncoated Stock with Custom High Gloss Slipcase.

Love in Shadow

Music GB