Grails Miracle Music Forest Night Vinyl Edition

Grails - the experimental rock institution who havecultivated a quarter-century career out of crate-plungingcultural curiosities - returns a mere two years after thelauded Anches En Maat with their most personal andemotionally resonant album to date. While the band stillrevel in rearranging bizarre and obscure sources intosomething often revelatory and surreal, Miracle Musicdoes so with an ascendant melodic power that feelshallowed.The Miracle Music lineup includes cofounders EmilAmos (Om, Holy Sons, Lilacs & Champagne) andAlex Hall (Lilacs & Champagne), alongside returningmembers, AE Paterra (Zombi, Majeure), Jesse Bates,and Ilyas Ahmed. Produced by Amos, Miracle Musicreunites the group with recording engineer JasonPowers and his Type Foundry studio in Portland,Oregon, where the earliest Grails records were mademore than two decades ago. Replete with acoustic andelectric guitars, synths, woodwinds, brass, samples,percussion - and featuring horn arrangements by KellyPratt (David Byrne, M. Ward) - Miracle Music unveils anexquisite new horizon for Grails.Creatively tireless as ever, Grails balance theboundary-pushing claustrophobia of early Industrialmusic with the airy melodies of Classical compositions tocraft the heavy mood that is Miracle Music. In a catalogdefined by mercurial departures, this is Grails' mostsentimental and high-minded trip yet.