So you’ve got an Earth record with Mark Lanegan singing on it? Well fucking a. Yes, please. Sign me up.

Details of Earth‘s forthcoming long-player, Primitive and Deadly, come via the PR wire below. Southern Lord will have it out in September, and it seems like yet another fascinating turn in Earth‘s ongoing progression is in store.

More to come I’m sure:

EARTH Reveals Details Of Their Tenth Studio Recording, Primitive And Deadly

International Tour Dates Begin Next Week

EARTH’s career, like its music, has always been a slow, deliberate progression. Each record slightly removed from the last, a constant refinement of a singular vision. Dylan Carlson has remained focused throughout on coaxing moments of strange beauty and reflection from “the riff”. This elemental foundation of rock is refracted, in their earliest recordings, through the prism of sheer volume and feedbacking drone or, in the twin Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light set from 2011 and 2012, via a sparse unraveling take on folk.

With Primitive And Deadly, EARTH’s tenth studio collection, Carlson and long term cohort, drummer Adrienne Davies, manage to pull off the trick of completing an Ouroborean creative cycle, twenty-five years in the making, whilst exploring new directions in their music. For the first time in their diverse second act, they allow themselves to be a rock band, freed of adornment and embellishment. As much as Carlson’s guitar has always been the focal point of EARTH’s music, it’s been surrounded by consistently diverse instrumentation. Here the dialog between Carlson and Davies drumming remains pivotal, underpinned by the sympathetic bass of Bill Herzog (Sunn O))), Joel RL Phelps, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter) and thickened by additional layers of guitar from Brett Netson (Built To Spill, Caustic Resin) and Jodie Cox (Narrows). Perhaps the largest left turn on Primitive And Deadly, though, is prominence of guest vocalists Mark Lanegan and Rabia Shaheen Qazi (Rose Windows) who transform the traditionally free ranging meditations of EARTH into something approaching traditional pop structures.

On “Rooks Across the Gates,” a song stylistically the closest to the folk inspired modality of Angels Of Darkness, Carlson stretches out into some of his most lyrical playing to date, creating an almost symbiotic relationship between his performance and the vocals of old friend Mark Lanegan. “From the Zodiacal Light,” meanwhile, takes the late 60s San Franciscan/freaked-out jazz-rock transcendence of The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull and quickly re-appropriates that sound into a musky torch song for the witching hour.

This contradictive tension between a band pushing itself ever-forward whilst surveying their history is reflected in the albums twin recording locales. The foundation of the record was laid in the mystic desert high lands of Joshua Tree, California where EARTH recorded hour after hour of meditations on each tracks central theme at Rancho de la Luna. Upon returning to Seattle these were edited, arranged and expanded upon at Avast with the help of long-term collaborator Randall Dunn (who was previously at the helm for the Hex, The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull and Hibernaculum sessions).

Thick, dense and overdriven, melodically rich and enveloping, Primitive And Deadly is EARTH reaffirming their position as a singular point in the history of rock. The album will see worldwide release this September, with a final street date to be announced shortly.

Prior to the album’s release, Southern Lord shall be reissuing Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method and The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull on LP on June 24th in North America.

EARTH shall embark on a run of international tours beginning next week, including June and July dates across Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Europe, followed by another European tour in support of Primitive And Deadly, with much more in store.

EARTH Tour Dates:

6/04/2014 Conpass – Osaka, Japan

6/05/2014 Earthdom – Tokyo, Japan

6/06/2014 Fever – Tokyo, Japan

6/12/2014 Chicks Hotel – Dunedin, New Zealand

6/13/2014 Bodega – Wellington, New Zealand

6/14/2014 Kings Arms – Auckland, New Zealand

6/17/2014 Crowbar – Brisbane, Australia

6/18/2014 Rosemount Hotel – Perth, Australia

6/19/2014 Manning Bar – Sydney, Australia

6/20/2014 Dark Mofo Festival – Hobart, Australia

6/21/2014 Hi-Fi – Melbourne, Australia

7/31/2014 Off Festival – Katowicw, Poland

8/01/2014 UT Connewitz – Leipzig, Germany

8/02/2014 Lido – Berlin, Germany

8/04/2014 Super Uho Festival – Sibenik, Hungary

8/05/2014 Arena – Vienna, Austria

8/07/2014 Schlacthof – Wiesbaden, Germany

8/08/2014 Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland

8/09/2014 Point Ephemere – Paris, France

8/10/2014 Zuiderpershuis – Antwerp, Belgium

8/11/2014 Tivoli – Utrecht, Netherlands

8/13/2014 Whelans – Dublin, Ireland

8/14/2014 CCA – Glasgow, UK

8/15/2014 Gorilla – Manchester, UK

8/16/2014 Jabberwocky Festival – London, UK

SELECTED EARTH DISCOGRAPHY:

Extra Capsular Extraction (Sub Pop) 1991*

Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version (Sub Pop) 1993

Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions (Sub Pop) 1995

Pentastar: In the Style of Demons (Sub Pop) 1996

Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord) 2005

Hibernaculum (Southern Lord) 2007

Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull (Southern Lord) 2008

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I (Southern Lord) 2011

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II (Southern Lord) 2012

Primitive and Deadly (Southern Lord) 2014

*re-issued as A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction (Southern Lord) 2010

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