The first Constellation release from outside the Constellation orbit, Evangelista is a gorgeous and intense album that demands to be listened from start to finish, playing out like a song cycle over it's 45 minute span. Like all Constellation albums, it comes beautifully packaged: Evangelista features scratchy, forebording shadow-world art by Montreal's Nadia Moss and it matches the music perfectly and it's also available on 180g LP.
Over the droning, scratching, buzzing, crackling minimal accompaniments from Shahzad Ismaily and members of the Constellation stable that help make Evangelista the sonic tour-de-force that it is, Bozulich barks and brays and howls out a pained, fractured heartsickness on the intense title track that opens the record.
With the expception of occasional squalls of cathartic intensity, things settle down a bit for the remainder of the album; drones, atmospherics and mimimal amounts of relatively subdued vocals have an almost cinema-for-the ear quality as fragmented sounds drift in and out of the soundscape.
Fans of highly emotional, powerful, tormented music will find great beauty in Evangelista's dark drones, quiet reflections and desperate, violent intensity. Stunning!
- Evangelista I
- Steal Away
- How to Survive Being Hit by Lighting
- Inside Sleeps
- Baby, That's The Creeps
- Pissing
- Prince of the World
- Nels' Box
- Evangelista II
Track Listing
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Mon, 18 Aug 2008
Xiu Xiu
: Xiu Xiu, Carla Bozulich, Common Ider King Ider at Launchpad, Albuquerque, NM United States -
Tue, 26 Aug 2008
Xiu Xiu
: Xiu Xiu, Carla Bozulich, Common Ider King Ider at The Living Room, Providence, RI United States -
Tue, 09 Jun 2009
Carla Bozulich
: Carla Bozulich at Scuola Popolare di Musica Ivan Illich, Bologna Italy
