Gazelle Twin - Black Dog [CD]

INVADA Records UK

£11.80

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: INV305CD
Barcode: 5051083195157
Release Date: 27 Oct 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

 In her three studio albums to date, Gazelle Twin has looked out: out at cities, out from a tormented body, out at the squirming guts of rural Britain, but on her first album for new label, Invada Records, she turns her gaze inwards. ‘Black Dog’ is an album about confronting fear, and the expectation that the things that lurked in the darkness when you were a child will disappear as you become an adult.
 ‘Black Dog’ tells a story that unfurls like a film. It addresses how our childhoods shaped our adulthoods: how any sense of trauma and grief is burnished onto a person’s memories forever, however much we try and escape it. ‘Black Dog’ suggests how
these feelings return in particular intensity when a person becomes a parent, as they watch themselves pass things on that they wish they hadn’t, wish they wouldn’t.
 In some ways, Elizabeth Bernholz is purging herself on this album. Unlike her masked characters for previous releases, her face is recognisable and, she explains, she is “not as removed this time” from her persona. She is imagining herself as a medium for the voices inside herself, rather than looking out to displace them with other ideas. She emerges huge and godly as she does so, her voice moving from delicate tenderness to
doom-driven power.
 This is an album where old stories have to be pillaged, digested, and regurgitated to write new ones, where we have to question ourselves utterly. ‘Black Dog’ looks back and looks in and looks back and looks in. We enter as we listen. We turn ourselves inside-out altogether.
 CD is housed in a spined wallet with 16pp booklet. LP pressed on frosted clear vinyl, housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with double sided insert.
 Radio - BBC 6 Music Mary Anne Hobbs premiere, New Music Fix, Iggy Pop, BBC Radio 3 Late Junction.
 Online - Reviews & features in Electronic Sound, The Quietus, Loud & Quiet, The Irish Times, Louder Than War, Reader’s Digest, The Skinny, CMU Daily, Portable Infinite, Cybernoise.
 Tourdates - November 10 London Bush Hall, 16 Newcastle Sage 2, 24 Brighton ACCA.

Tracklisting
I Disappear
Sweet Dream
Black Dog
Fear Keeps Us Alive
The Long Room
Two Worlds
Unstoppable Force
This House
Author Of You
Walk Through Walls
A Door Opens