Offerings (Typhoon album)

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Offerings
Offerings Typhoon Album.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 12, 2018
Genre Indie rock
Length1:08:34
Label Roll Call Records
Typhoon chronology
White Lighter
(2013)
Offerings
(2018)
Sympathetic Magic
(2021)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The 405 9/10 [1]
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Offerings is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Typhoon. It was released in January 2018. This was the second studio album released under Roll Call Records. [3]

Contents

Morton described the album as being broken into four movements: Floodplains, Flood, Reckoning, and Afterparty. [4] In a promotional tweet, [5] the band describes the album as:

It's a record from the perspective of a mind losing its memory at precisely the same time the world is willfully forgetting its history. The urgent question becomes: without causality, without structures of meaning, without essential features of rational thought, is there anything that can save us from violence/oblivion?

With no past and no future, there is only suffocating, annihilating, present, looping on and on ad infinitum (to me, one plausible definition of hell) and the best you can hope for is that somewhere in the void there exists some small, irreducible certainty—a fragment, a kernel, something—that you may have the good fortune to stumble upon before it's all over.

You know, a boy/girl-meets-girl/boy-everyone-dies-in-botched-attempt-at-neo-pagan-sacrificial-ritual-on-global-scale kind of thing.

Background

In an interview with Sound of Boston, violinist Shannon Steele explained that the album came out of a long break from playing live shows and the changes in the band makeup, noting: "One of the first songs that Kyle brought to the group to start working out was Empiricist. It had such a heavy, grungy feel that we all were really enthusiastic about." [6] The record was produced by Morton, and features some of his field recordings. [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Kyle Morton

No.TitleLength
1."Wake"3:49
2."Rorschach"4:17
3."Empiricist"8:35
4."Algernon"4:19
5."Unusual"6:18
6."Beachtowel"3:22
7."Remember"4:30
8."Mansion"0:55
9."Coverings"3:52
10."Chiaroscuro"3:10
11."Darker"3:54
12."Bergeron"2:50
13."Ariadne"5:54
14."Sleep"12:49
Total length:1:08:34

Personnel

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [8] 183
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [9] 18
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [10] 34

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog no.
United StatesJanuary 12, 2018 [11] Roll Call Digital
CDRCR 117
VinylRCR 117L

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