Produced & Directed by H.V.
Taken from the album "Ashes in the Huron River" out Feb 09, 2024.
Video directed/edited by H.V
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"Ashes In The Huron River" is named in honor of the local woods and riverlands that continue to inspire the studio project. This record is an account of a life spent in the rotten heartlands of neoliberal capitalism and a tribute to the vibrant underground music cultures that thrived before the second half of the last decade.
Expanding on the directness of “Nightmare Visions”, “Ashes” is grander in scope, and is internally regarded as a more focused analogue to 2019’s “Mirror in Darkness”. Hafsteinn Viðar Ársælsson’s (H.V) dark and intricate illustrations once again accompany the music with striking depictions of abandoned landscapes, arranged to invoke a sense of catastrophe and unwilling transformation.
Contributions include reamping and additional mixing by longtime collaborator Maya Chun (of screamo prodigies Heavenly Blue and countless solo projects) in the frigid spaces of Detroit’s Telescope Vision Studio.
1. The Built World
2. No Reprieve
3. Curse Envy
4. Willing Power
5. Grid of Sorrows
6. An Elegy
7. Ashes in the Huron River
8. Empty Gardens
9. Still You Haunt Me
10. As Long as Forever
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Lyrics:
Constant pressure
Relentless assault
Deafening my senses
No reprieve from the noise.
Way down here in dystopia
We’re all sick, fucked up, and suffering.
So of course you feel strange
Of course you don’t know why.
No more theory - I’m not listening anymore.
It can’t be mended
The world before ours
Constant waves of bullshit
On and on, world without end.
Always screaming, always attacking my senses
On and on with no reprieve.
Every year it gets worse and worse
It just gets worse.
Do I need to spell it out at this stage?
It’s all so tedious and boring
Predictable extremity, cacophonous world.
It’s the same fucking grift
Been the same my whole life
I can’t seem to find an out
And one day I know I’ll lose.
Until then
I’ll cut myself off
Block out the noise
The best I can.
No - in this world
There is no reprieve
From the noise.
All human action
Headed towards what?
Fuck the built world.
I can’t shut it out.
Is it a victory
Victory for you
How you treated me
How dare you envy me
Envy me and “my gift”
If you want it, come and take it.
Come to my desert
With no shape or horizon
Dare you to live here.
How dare you envy me.
I dare you to come and take it.