7 track album

Inimitable post-rock outsiders A Burial At Sea, made up of Irish duo Dara Tohill and Patrick Blaney, return with ‘Close To Home’. A soaring sonic love letter to the places and people that shaped them, released on February 23rd, 2024 via Berlin’s Pelagic Records. The duos first new music since the eponymous debut full-length in 2020, ‘Close To Home’ is a breathtaking evolution of their unique, brass-led blend of shoegaze, math-metal and blissed out afro-jazz that draws inspiration, influence and insight from the rich Gaelic cultural heritage of their Irish homeland. First making waves in 2018 with unbridled bombastic creativity of ‘…And The Sum Of Its Parts’ EP, A Burial At Sea turned the traditionally austere post-rock frown upside down. Quickly catching the attention of like-minded, international genre-benders And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA), This Will Destroy You ,Caspian and Some Become Hollow Tubes (Godspeed You! Black Emperor), the duo subsequently spent months on tour in support, honing their incendiary craft and gaining a loyal fan base across Europe in the process. Despite being landlocked by forces outside of their control, A Burial At Sea continued their adventure by looking inwards to produce ‘Close To Home’: a staggering refinement of the band’s already singular instrumental sound. The confidence, experience and sheer musical assuredness behind this album renders any generic labels of post rock immediately obsolete. ‘Close To Home’ proves without a doubt that A Burial At Sea are indeed more than the sum of their parts; positioning the band on the crest of a truly progressive wave of uplifting, anthemic post-rock. Since the albums release on Berlin label Pelagic Records, in February 2024, the band has toured extensively around Europe. They even made their Asia debut with shows around China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines with label mates, The Ocean and are looking ahead to a tour of South America later this year.

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