The Absent Years, by The Lonely Bell

The Absent Years

by The Lonely Bell

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	1.	Someday The Rain Will End 05:29
	2.	Life Without Love 08:34
	3.	The Silence That Fell Upon The World 04:00
	4.	I Want To Tell You Everything 06:21
	5.	A Ghostly Mist 02:40
	6.	Only The Memory 01:56
	7.	The Absent Years 08:00

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Released by Oscarson on limited edition vinyl & cassette tape...
oscarson.bandcamp.com/album/the-lonely-bell-the-absent-years

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The Lonely Bell’s brilliant new release “The Absent Years” is both palpable and ethereal, as landscape and dreamscape at once, an encounter with an immensity so elegiac and enveloping that it comforts. I’m not sure how to say this, but it feels as if the music itself doesn’t realize how powerful it is, the way it shivers and trembles and pulses and aches its way through lost corridors, unfolding its treasures into gorgeous, expansive mystery.

Initially the terrain is almost glacial, but soon enough, there is evidence of signal fires. Fragments emerge as if by sinking so deeply into the chasm one could feel the warm glow of its loneliness, held by its hollow. Nested within, plaintive guitar, distant piano that reminds of some long lost Satie, looping waves, warbled melodies, symphonic articulations, and phantom frequencies that seem to call through the static. Even in the cavernous spaces, the dust shimmers.

- Katie Griesar, Feb 2024

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released April 5, 2024

''Both macabre and melancholy, whilst also subtly uplifting, 'The Absent Years' is a folkloric, ambient aural tapestry...'' - Norman Records

''Heartbreakingly beautiful'' - Audio Crackle

''A deeply poignant album of melancholic musicality, ethereal drones and mesmerizing ambience'' - Fog Songs

''A siren-song of dispassionate remembrance of a time we hope never to see again... this pervasive sense of absence and loss, sitting like black tar in the bottom of the heart as a permanent stain deposited in the centre of us.
We shouldn’t dwell, but it’s not unsafe to sit and acknowledge these things in the sanctity of moments such as 'The Absent Years'.'' - HearFeel

''Dark, capacious drone ambient music... passages of shimmering piano and guitar and melodies that veritably ache with melancholy.'' Stationary Travels

''The music is slow, almost glacial, the feeling I get from his music is like trying to see through fog, or as the Scots say a Haar. I am writing this review in the bleakest of weathers with rain lashing down, under leaden grey skies and the music suits this kind of weather, where distant piano and ghostly melodies gently spool out, it is immersive stuff, music to get lost in...
I won’t pick out any individual tracks but the record flows beautifully, it is bleak but in a good way.'' - Terrascope

''Subtle, sedate and understated - 'The Absent Years' is an absorbing and emotive listening experience... a drift through a melancholic ache towards an alluring uplifting end.'' - Compulsion Online

''After listening to 'The Absent Years' many times, the best description for me would be the changing pageantry of the trees around us...
From ethereal wind swept drone to contemplative strings... the advent of thought to unimaginable length of time trees have been on this earth verses the humans being sustained by them...
Sinking conscious into the pinpoint we reside within the most complex atomic tapestry of spiritual mystery.'' - Lost In A Sea of Sound

''A beautiful record'' - No Place Like Drone

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All music written, performed, recorded, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Ali Murray on the Isle Of Lewis in the north of Scotland using home recording equipment.

Cover Artwork : Katie Griesar

Contact : thelonelybell@hotmail.com

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