London’s Hanging Valleys mix the ambient and the intimate on ‘Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone,’ their tender, cinematic, and soul-stirring fourth EP – a panoramic report reflecting life’s fragility, and the wonder within the rawness of our personal humanity.

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Hanging Valleys’ fourth EP evokes a way of grandeur; of vastness, depth, and scale. The music is mountainous – a becoming nod to their band identify – nevertheless it’s not the excessive peaks that concern the British duo; moderately, fairly like their namesake, it’s the cavernous troughs; the areas in-between every second, the place mild and darkish meet, the place excessive and low coalesce, and the place journeys are had, and the place our visceral selves thrive.

Hanging Valleys are architects of the ambient and the intimate, and their newest report creates room for loads of each: Tender, cinematic, and soul-stirring, Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone is a panoramic report reflecting life’s fragility, and the wonder within the rawness of our personal humanity. It’s a gentle give up to the forces exterior of our management; a nuanced acceptance, marveling at who we’re and the place we’re whereas gently tapping the endless whys that propel us onward every single day.

Get out of my very own approach
Or I’ll, I’ll die attempting
Useless calm,
I’ll head again to the world
Only one minute

Tomorrow I’ll be gone my expensive

No gold, simply goals
No matter comes
I’ll be prepared

– “Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone,” Hanging Valleys

Launched April 5, 2023 through DayGlow Information, Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone is an ethereal and serene seduction. Hanging Valleys’ fourth EP – their first in three years – finds the London-based duo of Thom Byles and Michael Phillips taking a acutely aware step again in an effort to let their music communicate for itself. The masterminds behind “Behind the Backs of Homes,” featured on Atwood Journal‘s 2020 Songs of the 12 months, have lengthy been “consultants at crafting dreamy soundscapes that blur the traces between indie-folk, ambient and shoegaze,” as Atwood author Diego Morales describes.

Their newest is arguably their greatest effort but: A fascinating four-track immersion, Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone rises and falls, rises and falls again and again in eighteen hypnotic minutes’ time. Hanging Valleys’ songs are the stuff of goals, every one an expansive dwelling to chill, cathartic vocal harmonies, heat, glistening, effected guitars, and plush synths that flip an in any other case silent second right into a soundscape full of chance.

However Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone isn’t simply the soundtrack to your subsequent meditation (although it might be well-suited to the job); it’s prepared for energetic and passive listens alike – for listeners who wish to slip away with, and for many who wish to slip inside one other’s artwork.

For Thom Byles and Michael Phillips, this report represents the subsequent rung of their creative journey, and is certainly each a private {and professional} achievement.

“I’d prefer to say that this report got here collectively simply however in fact it nearly by no means acquired made,” Byles admits. “Our final report Behind the Backs of Homes felt like an actual breakthrough for us artistically and sonically, we have been extremely pleased with it. To not point out having nice folks round who actually believed in us. Our dwell present was actually hitting its stride, and for the primary time it felt like we have been capturing the vibe of the recording and reproducing it faithfully on stage.”

“When the report got here out, it wasn’t obtained as we hoped, not a step again however not a step ahead both. It’s a harmful entice to fall into, however with all of the numbers and analytics accessible nowadays, it’s really easy to match your self to your ghost of Christmas previous. It’s foolish to let issues exterior of your management influence your feelings, however this kind of zapped our artistic mojo. It’s unusual to say, however in a approach the lockdown helped. It compelled us to cease focusing externally and slowly fall again in love with making music for the easy pleasure of it. This EP is dusting ourselves off and getting again at it… however for the proper causes this time. A very good lesson learnt.”

Atwood Journal premiered Behind The Backs of Homes‘ lead single, “The Shining Mountain,” in late 2019, praising the tune (and the band) for “pulling out all of the stops, experimenting and interesting with audiences as they faucet into one thing deeper than the dream pop or ambient folks worlds alone: One thing extra significant and core to our human existence.” Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone follows organically in these footsteps, as soon as once more providing a platform for introspection and deep reflection to all who decide in to what the duo are providing.

Kudos to Hanging Valleys for not letting knowledge and numbers get in the best way of them doing what they do greatest; in believing in themselves and of their artwork, they created a really spellbinding expertise for all.

“The imaginative and prescient for this report was to wheel our sound again to having some extra direct moments that actually leap out of the combination,” Byles explains. “Beforehand we had been trending in direction of a softer ambient strategy. It was enjoyable incorporating some new components like closely distorted guitar, 80s synth/guitar solo’s and gated percussion. I really feel like we stayed true to our sound but in addition discovered some cool moments that matched our imaginative and prescient and stored the venture evolving.”

Bandmate Michael Phillips agrees. “Constructing on the sonic bones of our earlier releases, it has all of the hallmark components and strengths of our earlier work while bringing in new components,” he provides, “which completely units the temper for the discharge.”

The pair describe their report as one among “progress, distance, and love.” The shoe matches.

The title itself is one which aches with emotion and which means.

“It’s impressed by an excerpt from The Coastal Kayakers Handbook (Randel Washburne),” Byles says, “however actually this information is a flexible life lesson bible. When on the water each second is moderately fleeting as you paddle via your atmosphere. Appreciating what’s round you, NOW, is the important thing. Earlier than you understand it you’ll be round that river bend.”

From the moody keyboards that fill our ears within the opening title monitor, to the rain that envelops the air on the conclusion of “Jupiter,” Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone proves a musical reward that retains on giving. The heavy “Pistol Shrimp” drenches listeners in brooding guitars and radiant, gentle singing. “Preserve watch, darling,” Byles sings, his voice a relaxing, caring beacon. “Be my eyes.” The pair describe it as “a prayer and a hope for these distinctive souls who defend, battle and rise up for others, regardless of placing themselves within the firing line.” The lyrics ache with feeling:

Beneath the currents
The waves above us
My love have braveness
For me

Come out preventing
Pistols firing
Take your intention and
Be courageous, hearth true

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“‘Jupiter’ is one which I at all times come again to,” Phillips says of the EP’s ultimate tune, his personal private favourite. “It completely encapsulates the 2 sides of Hanging Valleys for me. Probably the most immeasurably pleasing elements of making music is the collaboration. Working away at a brand new thought and seeing what course the opposite will take it. ‘Jupiter’ captures the Hanging Valleys sound completely for me and is one thing I’ll be proud to look again on as a creation of friendship and love.”

Underneath my pores and skin i’m simply checking
Balancing on a knife edge is all

Maintain me nonetheless, aapproach from hurt
Maintain me nonetheless, a wave of calm
Run the times, so gentle your gaze

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Byles gives a lyrical spotlight from the monitor “Deep Reverence,” a tune whose whispers really feel like shouts and whose electrical guitar hits really feel like bits of thunder hanging from the heavens.

Reverence I maintain inside
Enshrined beneath my pores and skin
Cells that electrify
You’re acid I’m alkali

“Our fashion of music lends itself to a sluggish supply,” he provides. “I really feel I have to make the lyrics depend as there are comparatively few in comparison with different genres.”

Finest listened to on repeat, Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone is made for all times’s longer contemplations; for walks that encourage, bits of solitude that stir the soul, and for little life moments that, whereas fleeting, however standout in our thoughts’s eye. Hanging Valleys hope to assist facilitate extra of these such moments – these occasions once we’re not at a peak, however moderately, on the best way – someplace in-between.

“Inside the means of development and adaptation of our sound, we’ve discovered extra solace inside comparatively sparse preparations, incorporating each delicate and dense wealthy layers,” Michael Phillips shares. “[This EP] incorporates all of these components and units the temper for the discharge.”

A way of grandeur; of vastness, depth, and scale. That is the nice and cozy and wondrous world of Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone, an eighteen minute ambient avalanche that guarantees to encourage and entrance its viewers. Expertise the total report through our under stream, and peek inside Hanging Valleys’ Tomorrow I’ll Be Gone EP with Atwood Journal because the duo takes us track-by-track via the music and lyrics of their newest launch!

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TOMORROW I’LL BE GONE

Tomorrow I’ll be gone is impressed by an excerpt from The Coastal Kayakers Handbook (Randel Washburne)… however actually this information is a flexible life lesson bible. When on the water each second is moderately fleeting as you paddle via your atmosphere. Appreciating what’s round you, NOW, is the important thing. Earlier than you understand it you’ll be round that river bend. A pulsing beat and tremolo’d keys construct right into a gentle explosion of guitar and Hanging Valleys’ signature falsetto vocals.

DEEP REVERENCE

The closest a Hanging Valleys monitor has come to a love tune. Within the phrases of Pedro y el Lobo label head Diego Morales; ‘Distortion by no means sounded so stunning’. This tune captures the joy of these uncommon moments when a kindred spirit is discovered.

PISTOL SHRIMP

A prayer and a hope for these distinctive souls who defend, battle and rise up for others, regardless of placing themselves within the firing line. The pistol shrimp can create an unbelievable quantity of noise for his or her measurement, they use this potential to guard their burrows and deter predators. Their eyesight isn’t good nevertheless they usually usually share their properties with a goby fish who is ready to alert them of any hazard. Thumbed electrical guitar and Thom’s falsetto ripple into a delicate journey of acoustic guitar and glistening synths.

JUPITER

Some astronomers consider that Jupiter performs an necessary defending function in utilizing its huge gravity to expel asteroids that may in any other case threaten Earth. This monitor is devoted to all of the guardian figures who’re there for us come rain or shine. Uncommon electrical guitar percussion and stripped vocals construct right into a gentle explosion of drums and shimmering textures earlier than the storm breaks.

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