A Single Flower
by We Lost the Sea
- Type: Album
- Released: 4 July 2025
- Label: Bird's Robe
- Country: Australia
- Length: 1:10:40
- Community rating: 3.64/5 from 10 ratings
Artists on this release: Carl Whitbread, Mark Owen, Kieran Elliott, Mathew Kelly, Nathaniel D'Ugo, Matt Harvey
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'A Single Flower' finds the instrumental group exploring classic post-rock structures, using its triple-guitar lineup to build from solitary, atmospheric melodies into vast, cathartic climaxes. The album continues the band's focus on heavy conceptual themes, using its dynamic and often overwhelming soundscapes to navigate feelings of despair and chaos while holding onto a fragile sense of hope. The songwriting relies on long, intricate arrangements that ebb and flow between delicate instrumentation and immense, layered crescendos.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, crescendo, instrumental, sprawling, monolithic
Tracklist
- If They Had Hearts (08:43)
- A Dance with Death (10:22)
- Everything Here Is Black and Blinding (07:42)
- Bloom (Murmurations at First Light) (13:35)
- The Gloaming (03:07)
- Blood Will Have Blood (27:11)
Credits
- Matt Harvey - artwork [artwork concept], illustration, design, layout, author [story by], guitar [guitars]
- Mark Owen - author [story by], guitar [guitars]
- Carl Whitbread - guitar [guitars]
- Kieran Elliott - bass
- Mathew Kelly - piano, synth [synths]
- Nathaniel D'Ugo - drums
- Robert Dean - booklet editor [story edited by]
- Joe Lambert - mastered by
- Greg Norman - producer [produced by], recorded by, mixed by
- We Lost the Sea - producer [produced by], songwriter [all songs written by]
- Louise Nutting - lyrics by, vocals [vocal melodies by]
- Ron Pollard - mellotron
- Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet