BLACK EYES - Hostile Design LP Disco

BLACK EYES - Hostile Design LP DiscoMore than 20 years after recording their last record, Cough, Black Eyes returns with Hostile Design. The album is comprised of six all new songs, written directly in the wake of the bands April 2023 reunion shows. Hostile Design was recorded at Tonal Park studios over three days, with Ian MacKaye resuming his role as producer and Don Godwin engineering. The instrumentation returns to Coughs two drums, bass, guitar and sax lineup, but adds some fresh

make some fool’s gold

the sinuous bass presence of Norris Jones (later known as Sirone) and some of the most explicitly abstract piano work ever recorded by Dave Burrell

but with a certain lightness

2019’s Your Wilderness Revisited received ecstatic reviews

Accompanied by extensive liner notes by Morinaga detailing the day of recording

Crossing the boundary of music and fine art

Reissue of the LP in the original artwork

unconventional album that neither picks up from nor abandons the modes of 2013’s widely-embraced Caramel or its 2010 predecessor Forever Dolphin Love

the second album by this constellation and the fifth by Linus overall

The very first commercial release of two legendary remixes of Arthur Russell's "In The Light Of The Miracle"

for the tangible and tactile

with m and claire transitioning and coming out as non-binary and trans