Now Available: Fawn Limbs (Finland/USA) - Darwin Falls - White/Gold Split 12" Vinyl

Released August 13, 2021 by Wolves And Vibrancy Records

Fawn Limbs have made a name for themselves by a musical concoction uniting elements from mathcore, grindcore, and noisy electronics, with the result having been a uniquely violent but detailed barrack of sound. The band has always cherished an experimental approach to the idea of music, not fearing stepping outside of their comfort zones repeatedly in the process. A good example of this ingrained aesthetic is their third EP 'Thrum' from 2018 which nearly abandoned all of the band’s custom traits, focusing on atmosphere by means of doom-oriented pace, structured electronics, partly improvised Western-flavoured guitars, and having a story uniting fact and fiction on top of it all, narrated by the band’s drummer Lee Fisher. Now, three years later, 'Darwin Falls' picks up from where that particular EP left off.

While being a sequel of sorts to 'Thrum' by ethos, 'Darwin Falls' extends beyond that particular sonic realm, utilising the familiar, chaotic and grinding mathcore elements to its mien, all the while adding flavours from doom, post-metal, sludge, and folk music. 'Darwin Falls' is a vortex of tonal tendencies molten into one coherent entity, where all the mentioned, musical aspects seamlessly blend together, forming something that no longer can not be expressed via genre tags or standard categorisations. 'Darwin Falls 'simply sounds like Fawn Limbs, and vice versa. That’s all there is to it, when it comes to force-fed moulds and definitions.

Fawn Limbs’ select previous releases have featured one or few guest vocalists, but this time around, there is none, not to the previous extent at least. Instead, in order to push the envelope more than before, the band invited renowned classical musicians from a global scope to provide additional depth to their newfound self. These musicians, based wherever from New Zealand to Switzerland and from UK to Colombia, introduce entirely a new kind of flavour to Fawn Limbs’ output, with varying instrumentation including but not limited to viola, oboe, saxophone, electric cello, trombone, trumpets, and mellotron, for an example. The outcome is something, that for better or worse, seems to lack competition in the current, worldwide musical climate.

SIDE DARWIN: 19:30 min
SIDE FALLS: 15:35 min

Eeli Helin – Vocals/Guitars/Noise
Lee Fisher – Drums/Narration
Samuel Smith – Bass
Stéphane Babey – Electric cello
David Burke – Trombone
Michael Frei – Piano/Wurlitzer/MikroKorg/Mellotron/Voice
Hanna Ott – Oboe
Philippe Simon – Trumpet
Richard Spencer – ViolaIván Zapata – Saxophone
Artworks by Eeli Helin
Layouts (vinyl) by Paul Pavlovich
Mixed and mastered by Samuel Vaney at Lead & Sulfur studio