Anura, by Atlantikwall

Anura

by Atlantikwall

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£4 GBP or more
Cassette + Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of Anura via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 2 days

Purchasable with gift card

£8 GBP or more
Full Digital Discography

6

releases

Get all 6 sivilised recordings releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of A Deck of Days, Survival Burden, Anura, Ratsickles, Atlantikwall, and Watch. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

£20 GBP or more (20% OFF)

1.	Amplexus 11:30	buy track
2.	Dust Ring 07:50	buy track
3.	Bone Shoots 07:26	buy track
4.	Rinde Or 10:47	buy track
5.	Runa 18:06	buy track

about

Reeling out of the zeitgeist, the second album from Atlantikwall presents an (un)timely reminder of the ruinous folly of fortified borders –ever destined to regress into the deformed remnants of ideological excess.

The album revels in layers of animalistic, braying, frog-calling guitars that form lurching texture puzzles that stagger and collapse around cyclical-shift drum patterns and primitivist grooves. These foundations harbour fragmented vocal chants, congealing into elongated songs that address themes of last-ditch reproduction in the face of impending extinction; resource wars fought by farmers in lands encroached by desertification; reinstatement of human sacrifice as response to environmental catastrophe; lone refugee journeys and modern-day wall-building as psychic splitting.

credits

released January 27, 2020

Reviews:

thequietus.com/articles/27908-tape-review-daniel-craig-stara-rzeka-jachna-ziolek-buhl-atlantikwall

Based as it is on Ynys Môn (aka the Welsh island of Anglesey), Sivilised Recordings continues to sound like it’s rather channeling music from another goddamn galaxy. The fifth tape on the imprint is the second by Atlantikwall – one of this column’s favourite tapes way back in 2016 – and the unnamed musician(s) under the guise do exceed expectations with a cosmic slop of tribal psych-noise invocations. The core ingredients of a battered drum circle of endlessly looping percussive bashes, furry guitars, and general pedal scuzz remain thoroughly intact. The vocals however, are put into firmer focus. They’re brought forward in the mix and (somewhat) unmuddied, the stories being told inside these tracks also pulling into focus. They tell doomy tales of "reproduction in the face of impending extinction" or "resource wars fought by farmers in lands encroached by desertification". Third track, ‘Bone Shoots’ event seems to suggest reinstating human sacrifice to try and get the environment back on-side. (This is not endorsed by this column, might I add. Not yet anyway.)

These trippy DIY acid noise rock rituals loop and drone and batter away with intent, pushed into long jams of desperate wailing and gloopy fuzzed out mulch – nonetheless very fun too still. The Master Musicians Of Dyffryn Moor is a similarly anonymous and rural outfit, battering drums against the apocalypse, and located some 100 miles down the Welsh coast in Pembrokeshire. Both Atlantikwall and TMMODM seem to embody a hopefully infectious and very much near-magic (and very Welsh, even when sung in English) approach to music-making. For all its heaviosity and apocalyptic imagery, Atlantikwall’s boundless psychedelic tribalism feels a rugged musical theatre of hope.

--Tristan Bath

cassettegods.blogspot.com/2020/02/onus-survival-burden-c42-atlantikwall.html

Welsh tape-slinging sorcerers, SIVILISED, have lined us up with a really great pair of tapes to get lost in, and I humbly suggest enjoying them back to back as I have for the past week or so!

Onus’s “Survival Burden” starts out with the mood of some wizard captain’s hazy tale of sailing seas of fog and seductive miasma-burned-aura, his declarations weaving violently back and forth between manic and stoic, the baritone guitar work and bass lines independently choking the atmosphere further, the ritualistic percussive mantras flirting with overwhelming fervor; make no mistake, Onus know how to kick out some seriously thick grooves and still keep on an ambient tip, still urge the mind to wander a thousand distant shores while still being spellbound by their tidal pull.

Enter into this equation Atlantikwall’s “Anura”, a palpably sweat-palmed conjuring pose, a blitzkrieg of alarm clock persistence, bleating disembodied organisms half-orgasming in electrically syncopated throes of bliss and confusion. Between these two bands, a spirit-DNA is shared around post-punk aesthetic, the desire to maul your mind into submission (one through enchantment, the other with melodic estrangement), and just outright being reminded how goddamn good the 90s were for East Coast/Midwestern (USA) indie bands like June of 44, Lungfish, & any number of Louisville visionaries!

These two cassettes come in sexy O-Cards with understated printing and are Well Worth the effort to listen to on a repeated cycle for many a day. Headphones or not, separate or together, they’re a series of R-E-A-L trips!

-- Jacob An Kittenplan

license

about

sivilised recordings

sivilised.com

discography

A Deck of Days

Aug 2022
Anura

Jan 2020
Survival Burden

Jan 2020
Ratsickles

Jan 2017
Atlantikwall

May 2016
Watch

May 2016

contact / help

Contact sivilised recordings

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Anura, you may also like:

Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker

supported by 6 fans who also own “Anura”

Actually astounding and emotionally moving, creating a community that I have been proudly a part of for 2 years OrsonXD
go to album
Femenine
by Julius Eastman

supported by 4 fans who also own “Anura”

A crucial historical document. Intricate and lovely. Lord Dubious
go to album
Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, or Wizard
by Skyjelly

supported by 4 fans who also own “Anura”

Nothing like Skyjelly out there - a totally original sound which, hopefully, will take over the world soon Ilya S
go to album
lightness
by Angela Winter

The North Carolina singer and multi-instrumentalist translates the "story of lightness" into nine experimental ambient spirituals. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 8, 2021
go to album
Indifferent Rivers Romance End
by Wreck and Reference

Wreck and Reference expand on their metal base to deliver a masterfully-wrought album of pain and desperation. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jul 25, 2016
go to album
_...-``-..._
by MOON RELAY

This conceptual album incorporates post-punk, noise rock, jazz, funk, and experimental sounds to create a singular listening experience. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 20, 2020
go to album
Hex Songs
by Fuzzy Hell

supported by 4 fans who also own “Anura”

Absolutely amazing, The music is both haunting and uplifting at the same time. It takes you to a far away place and leaves you feeling calm. Samantha Lusher
go to album