Deep Politics

by Grails

Deep Politics cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 March 2011
  • Label: Temporary Residence
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:46
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: William Slater, Emil Amos, Timb Harris, Randall Dunn, Bruno Nicolai

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Portland instrumental ensemble significantly expanded their cinematic scope on their fifth studio album. Utilizing heavy string arrangements and mysterious, Morricone-inspired psychedelic rock, the record acts as an incredibly suspenseful, dark soundtrack for an unmade desert film.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, desert, expansive, instrumental-heavy, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Future Primitive (5:28)
  2. All The Colors of the Dark (4:07)
  3. Corridors of Power (3:54)
  4. Deep Politics (5:38)
  5. Daughters of Bilitis (3:24)
  6. Almost Grew My Hair (8:03)
  7. I Led Three Lives (8:48)
  8. Deep Snow (7:20)

Credits

  • Grails - primary artist
  • William Slater - bass, synth [synths], piano, vocals [vox]
  • Bruno Nicolai - composed by
  • Randall Dunn - strings
  • Ash Black Bufflo - synth [synths]
  • Zak Riles - twelve-string guitar [12-string]
  • Timb Harris - written-by, arranged by, strings [strings written/arranged/performed by]

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