‘Sister Wave’ by Adam Lytle | New Album, ‘Altars’
‘Sister Wave’ is the third single ahead of Altar’s release is out today.
In describing the track, Lytle explains, “‘Sister Wave’ is about the acceptance of death. It is not a song of sorrow. It is a song of knowing. Years ago, I read The Tibet Book of the Dead. The text is a guide to the experiences of the consciousness after death. This idea that “by learning how to die, we can know how to live” was revelatory and has had a profound effect on my daily life since. Sister Wave was written in conversation with this idea, setting the experience amongst the beauty of the natural world.”
‘Altars’ was produced with Jonathan Schenke (Liars, Parquet Courts), and its eleven tracks shift between quiet fragility and wild catharsis. “This album is about devotion,” Lytle says. “Not just religious devotion, but the devotion to ideas, to people, to the things that shape us and undo us. It’s raw and unrelenting, but within that, there’s a strange, fragile beauty.”
Lytle wrote the album while living in Paris and Arles, France, channeling an old-world mysticism into his songwriting. Alongside collaborators like guitarist Cameron Kapoor, drummer William Logan, and multi-instrumentalist Oli Deakin, he built a landscape filled with fractured lyric…
‘Altars’ arrives soon, with vinyl and CD pre-orders now available.
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