Smote – Sitting Stone Pt. 2

As revealed recently, Newcastle based band Smote are releasing a brand new double album called 'A Grand Stream' on 23 August.

Watch the video that was made by Smote's Daniel Foggin, for the second track to be revealed from the album – the absorbing 'Sitting Stone Pt. 2' via the link below.

Daniel says this about the track:
“The second half of 'Sitting Stone picks' up where its predecessor left off, rather than focusing on catharsis and release; however, Part 2 is an exercise in tension and suspense. Amplifiers and microphones both pushed to their limit.” 

'A Grand Stream' is an album that’s the truest incarnation thus far of Daniel Foggin's vision for the band 'Smote' - a full-scale psychic voyage into the ether and a drone-and-repetition-fuelled series of incantations that takes simple, primal ingredients and utilises them for the purposes of aural sorcery, summoning spectres and revelations aplenty in its wake. 

This 70-minute-plus opus, which embarks on the most intrepid dive imaginable into the audial Deep End. Whilst the folk-tinged, ceremonial ambience that Smote have made their trademark is present and correct here, Foggin and his cohorts also waste little time exploring new more eerie and ethereal textures and dimensions, that sees them gravitate towards a headspace akin to the drone-based epiphanies of Kali Malone to the transcendent amplifier worship of ‘Earth 2’. 

Heaviness manifests itself most powerfully in the mammoth two-parter ‘The Opinion Of The Lamb’ – a near thirty-minute ritualistic voyage into the heart of darkness that melds Swans-style intensity, Trad Gras Och Stenar earthtones and Sunn O))) monomania to devastating effect. 

See Smote live:
2-4 Aug / Oxfordshire / Supernormal Festival
22 Aug / Glasgow / The Hug And Pint
24 Aug / Nottingham / JTsoar
25 Aug / London / Moor Beer Vaults
28 Aug / Ipswich / The Steamboat Tavern
29 Aug / Margate / WhereElse?
30 Aug / Bristol / Crofters Rights
31 Aug / Birmingham / Supersonic Festival
05 Sep / Paris / Supersonic
06 Sep / Den Haag / Paard
07 Sep / Ghent / Openair 9030
13 Sep / Newcastle / The Lubber Fiend

'A Grand Stream' can be preordered now on Ltd edition 'Pink/Black' double vinyl, housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve via all good record shops.