Bless Them That Curse You

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Bless Them That Curse You
Locrian Mamiffer cover.jpg
Studio album by
Mamiffer + Locrian
ReleasedMarch 6, 2012 (2012-03-06)
Studio Electrical Audio, Studio Greg (both Chicago), House of Low Culture (Vashon, Washington) and AVAST! Studios (overdubs; Seattle)
Genre Avant-garde, experimental rock, art rock, drone metal
Length51:36
LanguageEnglish
Label Profound Lore Records, SIGE, Utech Records, Land of Decay
Producer Randall Dunn, Mamiffer and Locrian
Locrian chronology
The Clearing
(2011)		Bless Them That Curse You
(2012)		 Locrian & Christoph Heemann
(2012)
Mamiffer chronology
Mare Decendrii
(2014)		Bless Them That Curse You
(2012)		 Statu Nascendi
(2014)

Bless Them That Curse You is a collaborative album between Locrian and Mamiffer. The first single off the album, "In Fulminic Blaze", was released digitally on January 5, 2012. [1]

Contents

Background

In an interview with Invisible Oranges, André Foisy stated that Mamiffer’s Aaron Turner invited Locrian to play shows and collaborate after the Utech Records festival in June 2012. The groups found support for the collaborative project from the Canadian Profound Lore record label. [2]

In the same interview, Locrian’s Steven Hess stated that “Profound Lore was nice enough to advance us the money and pay for the recording sessions. Then everything went perfectly – the timing for everyone to come here, the festival” and the shows that the groups played together afterwards in the U.S. and Canada.

Regarding the recording session and the planning for the album, Mamiffer’s Faith Coloccia, in an interview with NPR, stated that “Everything came together, in a kind of synchronicity kind of way. We found connections between seemingly disparate sounds and images, and unified them into harmonious relationships.”

Reception

Upon its release, the album was met with generally favorable reviews. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic described the collaboration as “powerful and seductive” and that “no song is safe from experiencing unexpected mutations or harboring antithetical sounds in both sublimely harmonious and intentionally disharmonic ways.” [3] Alan Ranta of Exclaim described the album as a mix of tracks that “push towards the experimental side," and others that "drive towards post-rock and black metal.” [4] PopMatters awarded the album an 8 out of 10 stars and described the album as having a “deeply meditative pulse” combining the “metallic drones, tender piano compositions, chorale vocals” of Mamiffer with Locrian’s mixture of “black metal, noise, drone, Krautrock, ambient and proto-electronica.” [5] Creaig Dunton of Brainwashed described Bless Them That Curse You as “a dark, yet captivating set of tracks” which incorporate “bits of drone, black metal, post-rock, and gentle piano passages.” [6]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
PopMatters 8/10 [5]
Tiny Mix Tapes 4.5/5 [7]
AllMusic 4/5 [3]
Spin 7/10 [8]
Brainwashed favorable

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."In Fulminic Blaze"Terence Hannum9:02
2."Bless Them That Curse You" 6:03
3."Corpus Luteum" 5:54
4."Second Burial" 6:00
5."Lechatelierite" 5:40
6."Metis/Amaranthine/The Emperor"Faith Coloccia (Metis), Terrence Hannum (Amaranthine), Aaron Turner (The Emperor)18:59

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Stosuy, Brandon. "Locrian & Mamiffer "In Fulminic Blaze"". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ludwig, Jamie (March 26, 2012). "Interview: Locrian". Invisible Oranges . Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Locrian/Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You". AllMusic. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ Ranta, Alan. "Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
  5. 1 2 Hayes, Craig (March 20, 2012). "Locrian and Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You". PopMatters. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ Dunton, Creaig. "Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You". Brainwashed. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Power, Max. "Locrian and Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  8. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher R. (February 29, 2012). "Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You (Sige/Utech)". Spin. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
  9. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo (July 9, 2012). "Locrian / Mamiffer Bless Them That Curse You Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
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