{"product_id":"companion-rises","title":"Companion Rises","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix Organs of Admittance is back after 3 years with a new record, new techniques in sound generation, and a new attitude. \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e has a driving force only hinted at with previous releases. Manipulating the rhythmic DNA from songs such as the bass-dominated \u003ci\u003eTaken by Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e (on his last record, \u003ci\u003eBurning the Threshold\u003c\/i\u003e), Ben Chasny has grown a new sound creature in his lab that is as welcoming as it is terrifying and as fun to listen to as it provocative and intriguing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMethodologically, \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e sometimes recalls the early-mid low-fi work of Six Organs, with modern techniques swapping digital processes in for the analog techniques of those early days, and algorithmic programs creating the rhythms rather than Ben’s overdubbed hand percussion. Also like those early records, \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e has Ben creating all the sounds, doing all the recording and mixing the entire record himself. But do not mistake this as some sort of return to an older sound. One listen and it is obvious that this Six Organs of Admittance release is all in the present. One thinks of Octavio Paz’s oft used metaphor of the concentric circle, as \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e returns to a similar place but is much farther out from the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonically, Ben’s songs are bursting with ideas, harmonically rich, gorgeously arranged; often presenting two versions at once, overlaying electric and acoustic treatments that interlock like two shards that form a single key.\u003ci\u003e Companion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e plays like a mutant joining of avant and good-time forces, as if Faust produced The Revolution instead of Prince, or This Heat recorded on top of Amon DuuI’s classic \u003ci\u003eParamechanical World\u003c\/i\u003e, but left a few of the original tracks to bleed through. Waves of electric fields wash across the record like a charged Pacific Ocean and guitar solos slice through at various intervals in a warped and fractured way of shreddage, not totally unlike the imagined sound of Edie Hazel jacking into the CPU in Tron.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThematically, many songs on \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e seem to navigate a similar Stellar-Gnosticism that 2012’s\u003ci\u003e Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e explored, but with a completely different set of stories. Whereas Ascent was locked into a narrative concerning a sentient Jupiter, \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e presents a handful of folk-tales whose topics span in scope from panspermia to specific constellations, all written in a way that eschews new age presentation tropes and embraces the now. With \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e, Ben has created a Sci-Folk record that feels totally in the right place welcoming in the new decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50498443411787,"sku":"1079940","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/957fce58-5ef0-48d8-8993-cfc70a8d75b3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727748318","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/companion-rises","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}