Deafheaven have led the way with 'Sunbather' how completely undogmatic the unshakable foundations of Black Metal with modern post-rock experimentation can bring to waver. And as you look at a whole new audience opens. Liturgy go on their second string 'The Ark Work' further and invent themselves with majestic horns, crazy bells and manipulative new electronics. But just to have a clear right away: New Yorkers remain on this album of course, a rock band. And a metal band as well. Philistine tastes who prefer the metal as the meat the vegetables are healthy, but thereof only get nasty headaches. The Black Metal scene boycotted Liturgy already long. But all this makes a singer, guitarist and creative thinkers Hunter Hunt Hendrix anyway nothing that has a completely own idea of his audience: 'I am very inspired by the avant-garde and art and have been thinking while writing the new album very much about what the are well for people who have heard the ''. Probably it will be rather a bit more open-minded and more curious friends of hard music that will first start on 'The Ark Work'. People alike can relate and Metal Indie and find every little prefix 'post' in genre label immediately interesting. The re-grown to a quartet Trio whistled its predecessor 'Aesthetica' to all conventions. But here ausgehebelt- basic parameters of songwriting and be redefined, the irrepressible will of the band is due to create something new. Earlier one had to have said crossover. But Liturgy are free spirits that it is downright ban, to be guided by what is already known. Hunter`s insane, hunted by the computer Gegniedel and the drumroll and oppressive double bass attacks by Greg Fox are so far mixed in the background that one perceives almost exclusively white noise. Fits to Hendrix is also equal to the nagging and sings with totally sober, already almost sleepy voice, as if he were praying to anything. But the real attraction is the ever-recurring Bläsersätze, bagpipes, horns and bells games. Whether in the intro, as Interlude or for general tonal compression, they run like a red thread through the album, access to musical themes and vary them. Who has become accustomed to, which is to make friends even with electronic hacker beats and sacral sounding choirs. Sounds determined funny, but it actually works. Liturgy like to take very important and serious. 'The Ark Work' emphasizes this in every note.
