ESSES - Releases A Sophomore Album And Official Video

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Published on Tuesday, 06 July 2021 16:08

Written by Jerneja

Deathrock/post-punk quintet Esses returns with sophomore album, Bloodletting For The Lonely, due out on 6 August on digital, vinyl, and CD formats. Atakra Records (US) will issue vinyl, and Bat-Cave Productions (Poland) will release the record on both CD and vinyl.    

Formed in 2014, Esses has gradually become one of the pillars in the thriving Oakland and San Francisco underground. Encompassing elements of deathrock and dark post-punk shrouded under a veil of forbidding doom, Esses captures an atmosphere that is intimate and intense at the same time. The Oakland five-piece — featuring current and former members of Altar De Fey, Black Ice, The Phantom Limbs, Red Voice Choir, and The Holy Kiss — carry through transcendently dark live performances with surreal and sublime vitalities.

A follow-up to the 2018s EP, Offering, the upcoming album, Bloodletting For The Lonely, centres around the topics of mental health, memory, and trauma, roaming over the events that are internalized into an unconscious space like a lucid dream and the world around which we cannot escape. The record interprets the psychology of moving through this comatose space as two separate beings inhabiting the same body and archetypal imagery. Emerging with "The Source" and culminating in "Schism," the record progresses with a continuous storytelling approach throughout the nine meticulously ordered numbers.  

On Bloodletting For The Lonely, Esses instigates a rivetingly high-powered yet spectacularly emotional outing. Gloomier and heavier than ever, the group extracts out their otherworldly reverb-drenched energies with bone-rattling drums, haunting melodies, and stoic basslines. Together with the bewitching songwriting, the piercing yet evocative vocals of Miss Kel help the tracks conceiving their destined mental image. The second album's track "Pierce The Feeling" was released on 2 July and is available below. Link

Bloodletting For The Lonely tracklist:
1. The Source
2. Pierce the Feeling
3. Four Corners
4. Infinite Void
5. Before the Blight
6. Little Mouse
7. Faceless Past
8. Caged Beasts
9. Schism

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