DAMON ALBARN - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows LP doom This sophomore album is being

This sophomore album is being released for the first time on vinyl and remastered for CD and download

have returned with an intensely confident

drums and guitar tone - everything sounds like a lost 1982 recording out of Gothenburg

but as the onslaught progresses the listener soon realizes they are being drawn into a desolate

with someone or self

DAMON ALBARN - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows LP doom This sophomore album is beingIn the midst of a global pandemic, Damon Albarn imagines himself adrift, yearning for the Icelandic shore. Water is a recurring motif, as are the invisible particles all around us; both come in waves, both belong to all of us. Tactile, earthly imagery (sand, oak, birds) shares space with the cosmic, just as the acoustic instruments (guitar, organ, horns) are balanced with the electronic. The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows is in a way