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It is only in the last two weeks of the recording process, right before sending it out to mixing, that it sort of came together and started to feel like a coherent album, an album that we could be happy and proud about. For an album with change\/transformation as an underlying theme, this is sort of performative!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis urgency and duress bleeds into every song, an hour long journey that moves from the grim to sublime, from melancholy to raw destruction — evoking ruined civilisations and the last wails of fractured psyches. Yet there is something less bleakly human, more ethereal at moments, as if glimpsing beyond the constraints of the body and its wheel of flesh and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“…we got rid of a lot of things that we felt tied us up to the past. We were also able to finally give a proper place to one of our most beloved pieces of gear: a Farfisa Louvre organ that had been with us for the last fifteen years. And with this album, we wanted to use keyboards again. The Farfisa can be heard here or there on our previous records, but this time we wanted to use it for real parts rather than quirky cameos: for instance the intro of “Naked in a Naked Sky” has been played on this Farfisa Louvre and on a CRB Diamond 701. There is a lot of Farfisa on this record.” \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAbraham also collaborated with Kevin Galland (Coilguns) who recorded some Moog and piano parts. Lending to these haunting contrasts that leave the listener adrift in hypnotic ore in one moment, only to be smashed the next, plummeting into dissident heavy madness. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Our approach to recording guitars was different than what we did before. 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