TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING

track-list:
Sudden Peril
Ghost Albatross
Twin Snakes In The Curvature
Seep Into
Lake Orb Altar
Trinket Forest
Lamprey Strings
Bush Wallaby
Folded Into
The Mantle
Oscillating Forest

Australian Post-Metal/Heavy Rockers TANGLED THOUGHTS OF LEAVING Announce New Album ‘Oscillating Forest’.
Lead Video Single ‘Bush Wallaby’ has been released.
Australian post-metal/heavy rock quartet Tangled Thoughts of Leaving announce new album ‘Oscillating Forest’, out on Bird’s Robe Records (Australia) and Dunk! Records (Europe) on August 4 2023.
Inspired by the sounds, intensity, emotion and life-cycles of the bush of the south-west of Australia, ‘Oscillating Forest’ is a reconstruction of the harsh and varied landscape in audio form.
As with the sounds and seasons of nature, the textures and tones captured here oscillate, pulse and modulate in a way that is not linear, predictable or safe;
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving guides the listener through a terrain where danger and beauty are found and contrasted around every turn.
‘Bush Wallaby’ is the new lead single from ‘Oscillating Forest’.
The band comments:
“A tale as old as time itself: what happens when a band gets sucked through a portal outside the recording studio into another world called ‘The Oscillating Forest’? What creatures will they encounter? Who will help them get home?”
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving composed the new album in the mould of an hour-long live set – a free flowing piece of music, ignoring the constraints of standalone songs and traditional structures.
Instead, each track is complementary to what comes before and after it, a constant transfer of searing energy and emotion, a cycle of constantly building and destroying itself.
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving recorded ‘Oscillating Forest’ in 2021 and 2022 at Studio Sleepwalker’s Dread in North Dandalup, Western Australia.
This was a period of intense inspiration for the band, the first album written with Gracie Smith on drums – and second with Paul Briggs on guitar.
There is a telling shift in energy and dynamics captured here – the chemistry and cohesion between Smith, Briggs and founding members Ron Pollard and Luke Pollard presented the opportunity to push further down the path of improvisation than previously captured on other Tangled records.
Large swathes of the album were recorded live, with sections of improvisation punctuated by more purposefully layered movements.
The artwork by South African artist Caitlin Mkhasibe further explores these themes of chaotic energy and space in the form of a conceptual view of ‘Oscillating Forest’, marked in map form.
The lines, contours, terrains, textures, detail and intersections of trails echo the intertwining tracks of the record.