Miracle Music

Description

Grails, the experimental rock institution that has cultivated a quarter-century-long career by digging through crates of cultural curiosities, returns barely two years after the lauded Anches En Maat with its most personal and emotionally resonant album to date. For Miracle Music, the band is comprised of co-founders Emil Amos (Om, Holy Sons, Lilacs & Champagne) and Alex Hall (Lilacs & Champagne), along with members AE Paterra (Zombi, Majeure), Jesse Bates, and Ilyas Ahmed. Produced by Amos, Miracle Music reunites the band with engineer Jason Powers and his Type Foundry studio in Portland, Oregon, where Grails’ earliest records were tracked more than two decades ago. Filled with acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers, woodwinds, brass, samples, and percussion—and adorned with horn arrangements by Kelly Pratt (David Byrne, M. Ward)—Miracle Music unveils an exquisite new horizon for Grails. As creatively restless as ever, Grails balance the claustrophobia of early industrial music with the airy melodies of classical compositions to create Miracle Music’s weighty ambiance. This is Grails’ most sentimental and soaring journey to date.