COLOSSLOTH - 'Plague Alone'





CSR277CD (15 May 2020)
CD in digipak
Barcode: 0641871745500

When these Colossloth tracks were recorded in spring-summer 2019, when the prophetic album title was set in stone, who knew what turbulence the world would undergo, what social isolation we would endure. To face a plague alone...

Landscapes sheathed in cacophony, a new sound being forged, emerging from the fractured sonics and sepulchral bass rumblings. A bold move forward towards the cinematic... transcendence born from ancient currents stirred up into frenzied and chthonic ritual. Esoteric music for transportation and immersion, taming the wilderness of the ravaged psyche.

Track listing:

1. Little Cups Of Grace (2:30)
2. Dies Infaustus (3:25)
3. Naked Blooded & Witched (8:43)
4. Plague Alone (10:43)
5. Scylla Is Rising (5:16)
6. Silt (15:04)
7. A Fuse Like This Has To Be Lit (14:47)



Reviews:

"It’s the best thing to come from the mind of the ‘mysterious beast hailing from Leicester.’ It’s an inhuman mass of sound. Metallic and laced with dust... this got me and held me for the length of the recording. I didn’t stop listening at all. A sonic creation for listening alone as the world lies still around you" (Fighting Boredom)

"Plague Alone has more than its share of sharp edges and aggressive discordance, with grinding waves and walls of sound over electroacoustic elements. Electronics, feedback, backward masking, and sculpted white noise are put into effect as well. But instead of being a sequence of random noises, Plague Alone is a logical progression that tells a compelling and appealing story. A harsh story to be sure, but one worth hearing" (Avant Music News)

“Colossloth decided to tweak the tried-and-true formula that has gotten his project heralded as “the best of the new wave of British drone” by approaching the song concepts from a cinematic standpoint and by making them even more expansive in scope, while still retaining influence from diverse sources that range from nature and Wicca to dark ambient, IDM and even grindcore. All of that put into a pot together makes a product that is at times (and even all at once) disquieting and comforting, aggressive and gentle, manic and centered… Plague Alone is a very listenable album despite the disquiet it showcases… These are dense songs, but they work on a lot of different levels in the mind. Some frightening, some serene, all of them pretty damn cool.” (Nine Circles)

“Colossloth brings an album that shatters the listener with mechanized metallic sounds and an overall ethereal sense of angst. As jarring as it can be, the way Plague Alone unfolds is extremely graceful; the songs seep into each other with an elegant flow, gently carrying the listener from one track to the next with undeniable sensitivity… Right from the start, Colossloth warps and morphs our surroundings, transporting us to a decaying world, where rusty and barely functioning machines, painfully struggle to move from one point to the other. It is a grim landscape, but some light is able to break in every now and then, giving some color to this desolate scene” (8.5/10, Densidad2025)

“...la audición del álbum “Plague Alone” impresionará profundamente debido a la inmersión sensorial que provoca, abriéndose este mundo recreado musicalmente a través de perfilamientos sonoros drone que les causarán una gran impresión por su calidad y por su espíritu innovador... Siempre situado en la vanguardia, cada nueva propuesta sonora de Colossloth inmortalizada en un álbum es una invitación a disfrutar del espíritu pionero, convirtiendo a estas obras musicales en una siniestra delicatessen a saborear desde la quietud propia del outsider... esta grandiosa obra musical es su más reciente y talentosa manifestación artística” (Lux Atenea)

"You can sense that there's a kind of soul to it, even though it's a purely mechanical sound. There's something within it... a journey or a story which you can pick up on. There's a living, breathing to it even despite the nature of the music... bury yourself in this one" (Ninehertz)