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HSAL #59 - "Beauty In The Ghost"

by TLVS

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    * L.A. Dies, "Drifting Still" (Roanoke based dream pop)
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    * TLVS, "...Dream All Day" (recorded w/ J Anderson of DEMONS)
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    Special "cerulean" vinyl edition of our latest album, "Beauty In The Ghost", in color printed LP jacket with 11" x 11" printed insert. Download code slip included (share it with a friend). Cassette version of "The Ghost Of Beauty" containing B-sides, early versions, and remixes that serve as a companion to the LP. Special print featuring G.M. Hopkin's "The Golden Echo" backed with one of a series of photos from the Harding Street Assembly Lab.

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    Standard virgin black vinyl edition of our latest album, "Beauty In The Ghost" in color printed LP jacket with 11" x 11" printed insert. Download code slip included (share it with a friend).

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LEADEN ECHO How to kéep—is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, láce, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty,... from vanishing away? Ó is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rankèd rinkles deep, Dówn? no waving off of these most mournful messengers, still messengers, sad and stealing messengers of grey? No there's none, there's none, O no there's none, Nor can you long be, what you now are, called fair, Do what you may do, what, do what you may, And wisdom is early to despair: Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be done To keep at bay Age and age's evils, hoar hair, Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death's worst, winding sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay; So be beginning, be beginning to despair. O there's none; no no no there's none: Be beginning to despair, to despair, Despair, despair, despair, despair. GOLDEN ECHO Spare! There ís one, yes I have one (Hush there!); Only not within seeing of the sun, Not within the singeing of the strong sun, Tall sun's tingeing, or treacherous the tainting of the earth's air. Somewhere elsewhere there is ah well where! one, Ońe. Yes I can tell such a key, I do know such a place, Where whatever's prized and passes of us, everything that's fresh and fast flying of us, seems to us sweet of us and swiftly away with, done away with, undone, Undone, done with, soon done with, and yet dearly and dangerously sweet Of us, the wimpled-water-dimpled, not-by-morning-matchèd face, The flower of beauty, fleece of beauty, too too apt to, ah! to fleet, Never fleets móre, fastened with the tendered truth To its own best being and its loveliness of youth: it is an ever-lastingness of, O it is an all youth! Come then, your ways and airs and looks, locks, maiden gear, gallantry and gaiety and grace, Winning ways, airs innocent, maiden manners, sweet looks, loose locks, long locks, lovelocks, gaygear, going gallant, girlgrace— Resign them, sign them, seal them, send them, motion them with breath, And with sighs soaring, soaring síghs deliver Them; beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair Is, hair of the head, numbered. Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould Will have waked and have waxed and have walked with the wind what while we slept, This side, that side hurling a heavyheaded hundredfold What while we, while we slumbered. O then, weary then whý should we tread? why are we so haggard at the heart, so care-coiled, care-killed, so fagged, so fashed, so cogged, so cumbered, When the thing we freely fórfeit is kept with fonder a care, Fonder a care kept than we could have kept it, kept Far with fonder a care (and we, we should have lost it) finer, fonder A care kept.—Where kept? Do but tell us where kept, where.— Yonder.—What high as that! We follow, now we follow.—Yonder, yes yonder, yonder, Yonder...
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So, I walked in the dry sand up to my ankles, white with sand to my middle, my throat rough with sand – unmitigated noon above me, and the sun so high that I had no shadow. I longed for the water of death; for however bitter it was, it must surely be cold, coming from that sunless country. I walked for a hundred years. But at last the desert ended, crags and pinnacles and rotting cliffs that no one could climb. Rocks were loosened and fell from the heights all the time; their booming and clanging as they bounced from one jag to another and the thud when they fell on the sand, were the only sounds there. Looking at the waste of rock, I first thought it empty, and that what flickered over its hot surface was the shadows of clouds. But there were no clouds. Then I saw what it really was. Those mountains were alive with innumerable serpents and scorpions that scuttled and slithered over them continually. The place was a huge torture chamber, but the instruments were all alive! And I knew that the wall I was looking for rose in the very heart of those mountains. “I can never get up” said I.
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about

FFO: Mogwai's "Rock Action", Pan American's "Cloud Room, Glass Room", Forest Swords' "Fjree Feather" EP, Every Bono-free moment of U2's "Achtung Baby"

"There are many times when these songs just seem so triumphant, as if we have just won a war and come out on the other side as the victor." - Raised By Cassettes

This may be the most adventurous outing in TLVS' history. It may also be the most focused. Early in the writing, drummer Nathan McGlothlin found inspiration from the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, namely "The Golden Echo." From this poem, TLVS captured the album's title and its direction. Across its eight tracks, "Beauty" floats down streams of hopeful meditation toward moments of euphoric release.

Sonically, the trio employs some new pieces to their formula. The electronic beats and programming on album high point "Mt. Zion Temple of Love" create a vibe as potent without live drums as they do with them. Members of L.A. Dies provide ethereal vocal work (a first for TLVS) on "District Interpretation" and "Fragaria Virginiana." Kaily Schenker (Graven Image, Meridiane), offers an enchanting cello melody on "Rupert Rainelle."

credits

released October 1, 2021

Produced by TLVS and Allen Bergendahl
Mixed by Allen Bergendahl
Mastered by Simon Scott

Initial sessions at Rabid Ears (Richmond VA) in December 2019 and February 2020 engineered by Allen Bergendahl.

Remainder tracked at various homes during the pandemic of 2020.

TLVS
Joe Morgan - Guitars
Joey Wright - Keys, Programming
Nathan McGlothlin - Drums, Keys, Programming

SPECIAL GUESTS
Kaily Schenker - Cello (#7)
Myra Goodman - Vox (#3)
Aaron Jacks - Vox (#3,4)
Melody Ouellette - Vox (#3,4)

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TLVS Lynchburg, Virginia

TLVS is currently a three piece that works with other artists from time to time. Their take on “vocal-free rock music” allows for emotional transfer across passages that are at times frenetic & at other times genteel.

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