Domestic Sacraments is Ex-Isles’ long awaited follow up to their acclaimed debut album, Luxury Mass released in 2018. With a dramatic and explosive expansion of their sound and a strident agenda, they interrogate the hollowed-out promises of contemporary life under late-capitalism and turn them into an urgent poetics of despair and resistance. Domestic Sacraments is a masterclass of pop writing and arranging, that upends pop music's musical and lyrical conventions to create a beautiful, damaged, slyly witty record that has deep roots in the work of David Sylvian (Secrets of the Beehive), Scott Walker, Talk Talk, and David Bowie's Blackstar.
Tracklist
- 1Do We Call This Home?
- 2The Smallest Plot Of Land
- 3A Mechanism Of Release
- 4(After) Deaf Republic
- 5The Gnashing End
- 6This Notice
- 7Theatre
- 8Your Violence
- 9Tender Rites
Credits
- ArrangerJohn Ayers (6)
- BassMark Prentice
- Cover, Artwork, Sleeve, DesignRoss Cunningham (2)
- DrumsDarren Beckett
- MasteringSeán Mac Erlaine
- Piano, Synth, Mellotron, Noises, Programmed By, Lyrics ByJames Joys
- Producer, Recorded By, Mixed ByDave Lynch
- SaxophoneLeroy Richardson (2)
- Songwriter, Arranged ByJames Joys
- Songwriter, Arranged ByPete Devlin
- Synth, GuitarJohn Ayers (6)
- Vocals, SynthPete Devlin
- GuitarChristoph Skirl
- VocalsAisling McCormick
- VocalsBeccy Henderson
- VocalsClaire McCartney
- VocalsMéabh Meir
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