We wrote earlier in the week (in our Advance Base preview) that we try to avoid ‘news’ stories that don’t say very much. We still mean this, although an announcement yesterday had us backtracking once again upon the announcement of something too good not to share.
If you aren’t familiar with Jonas Bonnetta’s Evening Hymns, then you really should be. 2009’s Spirit Guides was a lesson in atmospheric, well-written folk music and 2012’s Spectral Dusk is, without exaggeration, one of my favourite records of the decade so far. We only managed this measly non-post at the time, but lets just say it dragged me through some stuff I needed dragging through. I could go on about how Spectral Dusk is brave and heartbreaking and intensely personal, or how it made me feel okay and less alone, or how Evening Hymns, miles from home in a humble Cardiff venue, dredged everything up again to play a quite stunning and draining live set for our pleasure when it would have been easier not too, but I’m sure Bonnetta gets that all the time.
Anyway, yesterday the band announced that their new album Quiet Energies is to be released on Outside Music on the 18th of September. To learn a bit more about it then you should read this interview with Sarah Murphy over at Exclaim, then watch the rather lovely trailer below:
Photograph from Outside Music