Sea Wolf – Through A Dark Wood (LP Vinyl)
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Alex Brown Church spent the better part of a decade finding his way back to this one. The years between Sea Wolf's last proper studio album and *Through A Dark Wood* weren't quiet ones, they were full of false starts and hard reckoning, and that weight is audible in every arrangement Church finally committed to tape.
Everything is alright now. Alex Brown Church - the man behind the dark folk, indie rock band Sea Wolf - wants you to know that from the start. Really. Sea Wolf's eagerly anticipated fifth LP, Through A Dark Wood, proves it in 11 textured, sometimes-acoustic, sometimes-electronic, unabashedly honest tracks. But beforehand, everything was decidedly not okay. Church wrote and recorded an entire album after 2014's streaming-only, stripped down album Song Spells No. 1: Cedarsmoke, but decided to scrap it. He realized those songs lacked a through-line and felt conceptually disjointed, something he attributes to a sense of denial of what had been going behind the scenes - dealing with the disintegration of a long-term relationship, reconciling with the death of an estranged parent, and trying to cope with the magnitude of current events, all while maintaining a passionately beloved, yet slow-burning creative career.
UPC: 842803023714
Label: Dangerbird Records
Release Date: 1.28.22
Format: LP Vinyl