Raise the Dead, by Jakob Battick & Tongue Depressor

Raise the Dead

by Jakob Battick & Tongue Depressor

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Raise the Dead is a collaborative album from Connecticut drone duo Tongue Depressor and Maine-born, Philadelphia-based songwriter Jakob Battick, coming October 26th on cassette and digital via the Czech label Stoned to Death.

Steeped in ritualistic necromanticisms and a spectral, sprawling sense of composition, the album is a lush and alien trip through some of the furthest reaches of songcraft and 'the song.' The 38 minute LP's two side-long pieces are mergers of the haunted vestiges of 20th century songwriting and contemporary avant-garde exploration, deeply informed and inspired by the liberating fearlessness of extreme metal. Tongue Depressor's Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey utilize all manner of microtonal and just intonation instrumentation to frame Jakob's deceptively gentle baritone and occult-fixated lyrics within a sonic landscape that shimmers at the nocturnal end of the spectrum of light as it creaks and groans under its own nightmarish weight. These songs are at once potentially disturbing and richly romantic, combining elements both familiar and phantasmic to synthesize something truly difficult to place within the current American underground.

Czech luminary Jakub Ďuraško's Stoned to Death imprint has been making an international name for itself by releasing gems from artists of all stripes and persuasions, beyond all stylistic and geographic boundaries. As a label that can call itself home simultaneously to blasphemous black metal ragers, esoteric modular drone duos, and kosmiche ambient folk outsiders, Stoned to Death was an obvious and happy home for Raise the Dead's idiosyncratic spirit of grotesque adventure.

These are songs of horrific affirmation, of recombinance, of the possibility of a thousand other lifetimes just beyond the veil.

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released October 26, 2022

Jakob Battick - Vocals
Zach Rowden - Double Bass, Violin, Tapes
Henry Birdsey - Microtonal Organ, Pedal Steel, Cello, Violin, Bells

Recorded March to June 2021 in Oakland, CA + New Haven, CT
Engineered + Mixed by Henry Birdsey

Photography + Layout by Jakob Battick

Thanks and love to Jakub Ďuraško
Cassettes duplicated by Headless Tapes in Prague, CZ

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HENRY BIRDSEY +
ZACH ROWDEN

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