Returner

You would do well to understand as you try to plant your flags that from the dust you have come and so you will return. Returner is a work of Earth, and completes the 5-album elemental cycle begun with 2015's Breaker. Written and recorded as the World was shut down, its focus draws on the myriad pressures placed on the body, working through ghosts, violence, death, and how we can live with them. Amongst these themes, Ciudad Juárez highlights the femicides perpetrated in said city, now spread across Chihuahua state, as 'fictionalised' in Roberto Bolaño's 2666, and elucidated in the podcast Forgotten : Women Of Juárez. Blood Requiem speaks of the sacrifice of so many young lives in the fields of Europe in the Great War, as the soil rendered all in the same earth-tones. Omertà investigates the code of silence exemplified as honourable by the mafia and others, and whether it is possible to live with loss in an inherited system. And finally, Ithaca finishes the journey that began in Breaker's Heavy The Beat Of The Weary Waves, returning the voyager back to his home, still carrying the story with him, endless and repeating. But here the songs remain. And so we return, and begin again. IN FINITE RECORDS 010 With love and thanks to Violeta Page, Danny Lowe, Tom Sewell, Andy Holden, Andrew Anderson, Alkistis Dimech, Peter Grey, Autumn Richardson, Richard Skelton, Stephan Mathieu, Dale Cornish, and Chiara. For you