The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef, by Bismuth

The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef

by Bismuth

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• Marvelously done tape version courtesy of Tartarus Records
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• 1st pressing, black 12" vinyl version (sold out everywhere else); in collaboration with Dry Cough Records and Rope or Guillotine
• Insert and black poly-lined dust sleeve in a inner black jacket
• Recorded by Chris Fielding (Skyhammer Studios, UK) and mastered by James Plotkin - www.plotkinworks.com

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The road to Medusa Crush Recovery; it was a decision to put this up for offer. This just may be a Holy Grail to some lucky fan out there, so here it is, the last Test press of 'The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef'

Only one available; never played; mint condition. In a white jacket sleeve with printed meta in a resealable poly-bag. Proceeds go toward the revamping and resuming of M.C.R. business soon enough.

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	1.	The Slow Dying Of The Great Barrier Reef 32:09
	2.	Weltschmerz 06:25

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***TO JUST OBTAIN THE DIGITAL/STREAMING VERSION OF THIS ALBUM, VISIT TO THE BAND DIRECTLY AT:
bismuthslow.bandcamp.com

"It’s quite difficult to talk about a band like BISMUTH. On the one hand, their minimalist and self professed ethereal doom is often times so sparse it drifts into the world of ambient drone before things get switched on their head as the band show their ability to groove at a harder and faster rate than most of their counterparts. This disparity is on best display in their most recent effort The Slow Dying of The Great Barrier Reef, a topic terrifyingly relevant to current times and a theme that works incredibly well with the hulking intensity that BISMUTH conjure on the record."
- Distorted Sound

"...the 32-minute title-track of Bismuth‘s upcoming second full-length, The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef, is heavy enough that you’ll be mopping your melted brain cells off the floor after they leak out your damaged ears. Provided you still have enough coordination to do so after the onslaught of noise and tonal weight. The Nottingham-based bass/drum duo will release the album Nov. 2 through no fewer than four labels — Dry Cough Records, Tartarus Records, Medusa Crush Recordings and Rope or Guillotine — and hearing it leaves little mystery as to why they’d garner such populous backing. Comprised just of the title-track and the subsequent six-minute scathe of noise-doom in “Weltschmerz,” it works around the theme of climate change and human impact on the planet, so yes, it is quite fucking grim. Quite fucking grim indeed. Just like our prospects for making it out of the next two centuries with a civilization intact. Good work, my fellow fuckwads."
- The Obelisk

"The band’s use of pace and shading is exquisitely realised on this release, and the decaying, degrading world that they portray with their music is both subtle and sharp. It’s horrific and sad at the same time, and effectively portrays its tragic and unnecessarily inevitable subject matter with the accuracy of a scalpel. Highly atmospheric and affecting at all times, The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef should be required listening for anyone that believes drone music can’t adequately get across real emotion and feeling."
- Wonderbox

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released November 2, 2018

Recorded by Chris Fielding at Skyhammer Studios, UK - December 2017
Mastered by James Plotkin - www.plotkinworks.com

Artwork by Ross D Mckendrick

Drums - Joe Rawllings
Bass, vocals, synth - Tanya Byrne

Released to vinyl by M.C.R., Dry Cough Records (www.drycoughrecords.com) , and Rope or Guillotine (www.facebook.com/ropeorguillotine/).

Cassette version courtesy Tartarus Records (https:www.tartarusrecords.com)

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