OUT NOW: ALDRIG DEBUT ALBUM & FAWN LIMBS / NADJA ALBUM

ALDRIG ‘YAGMUR’ (WVR 058)

Aldrig (BE) is a group that was formed by ex-Soul Grip members Gert Stals & Joren De Roeck. Musically unifying sounds from black metal, sludge & post metal; combined with visceral, layered vocals, Aldrig creates an avant-garde sonic landscape that reigns cathartic. Both anointing and abrasive, their first record “Yağmur” is a vessel for grief.

Lyrically the record encapsulates a character falling through time and space, awakening in different urban dimensions over and over again, chasing something it cannot ever find. Like a blinding light in the night sky, there is an unabsolved longing in Aldrig’s music, a lament for liberation, but there is no liberation, only further confinement.

⛓️ Vinyl facts: ⛓️
Limited to 300 copies:
⛓️ 200 copies white black marbled vinyl
⛓️ 100 copies gold black split vinyl
⛓️ 180 g vinyl
⛓️ 350 gsm outer sleeve
⛓️ incl. downloadcode
⛓️ mixed by Magnus Lindberg (Cult Of Luna)
⛓️ mastered by Jack Shirley
⛓️ Front cover artwork by Julio Camacho-Vicente
⛓️ Back cover images by Lore Horré

⛓️ Shirt facts: ⛓️
⛓️ artwork by Julio Camacho-Vicente
⛓️ printed by Fabric in Gent on Stanley x Stella Blaster shirt (oversized)

FAWN LIMBS & NADJA 'VESTIGIAL SPECTRA’ (WVR 057)

“Even though both bands have their own signature tones and pace, both have wandered off to the other end of the spectrum occasionally, and while the match up might seem strange upon first glance, the composition process was rather quick and smooth, maybe to everyone’s surprise. Done via file sharing in the middle of the plague, the results of these two worlds colliding are nothing short of lush and fluent; most of the time you can’t tell anymore where the other begins and where the other ends, thus the collaborational aspect clearly flourishes as it should. What started out as a few messages sent back and forth, resulted in a genreless, mind-bending monolith of an album that Vestigial Spectra is.
Vestigial Spectra carries both Fawn Limbs and Nadja’s own signatures, but burns bright to exist as an entity completely of its own. The songs and the album as a whole ebbs and flows between unestablished parameters that are as surprising as they are anticipated. Taking influence from a variety of styles ranging from grindcore to doom and from noise to ambient, Vestigial Spectra blends its components seamlessly to produce an entirely novel aural field that simultaneously is both a dynamic and thought-out craft and a wall of noise-esque seemingly directionless leviathan. Whether slow, fast, or free of pulse and time, every single second on the album is as important as the ones preceding and following it, making Vestigial Spectra first and foremost a cohesive and consistent entirety.

Thematically, Vestigial Spectra studies astronomical spectroscopy – in which scientists use a spectograph to determine the make-up of stellar bodies and planets amongst other things – and its inherent relation to human nature. Mirroring these practices and standards from one another makes up for layered lyrical approach that can read as scientific pathos as easily as a metaphorically charged burst of emotion. There are three types of spectra – absorption, continuous, and emission – which corresponds to the album’s structure and sonic being.”

This is the EU version - Limited to 300 copies:

⛓️ 200 copies ghost marbled teal vinyl
⛓️ 100 copies marine froth blue vinyl
⛓️ gatefold sleeve
⛓️ fully printed inner sleeve
⛓️ incl. downloadcode

⛓️ mixed & mastered by Samuel Vaney (Lead & Sulfur Studio)

⛓️ Front cover photography by Eeli Helin
⛓️ Painting by Aidan Baker
⛓️ Design by Paul Pavlovich