Ghostwriter An Endless Fire (full album, 2023)

Following the Nameless Mist stream yesterday, I bring you another early play of another exceptional album from Fridays set of Fólkvangr Records releases. Arizonabased Kalee Beals second album is an ethereal, gossamer woven revelation of blackened folk, ambient indie, gauzy shoegaze, postmetal and other inspired influences elegantly melded into her primally emotive sophomore album that adds equal shades more light and dark to 2019s Burial Grounds. The range of artists that come to mind each time I play through this album has been quite remarkable getting flashes of blackgaze like Clair Cassis, Sleeping Peonies, Alcest; then Captured Tracks, Sub Pop, Cherry Red shoegaze, dreampop bands like Cranes, School of Seven Bells, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Blouse, and the darkalternate rock of artists like Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Emma Ruth Rundle, Anna von Hausswolff often all simultaneously during the same passages, or subsequent plays. Clearly not going to be one for the d