Love Chants - Shadow Season

Anthony Guerra, Matthew Earle and Michael Zulicki bring to an end Love Chants decade-long exile with a new three song 12" for C/Site Recordings that re-confirms the stargazing brilliance of their elongated, half-speed downer song. These guys have long histories - both together and apart - within the Australian underground, and I think it's that experience that gives them the shared confidence to write songs unafraid to drag their feet in a kind of heartbroken waltz, a post-rock informed, slowcore adjacent lowlit glow of shuffling drums, chiming guitars and often wordless vocals that seeks the comfort in being sad. You might be inclined to understand this as some branching off from the emo ecosystem, though it's music free of the type of melodrama and self-obsession that such an association might suggest. This is ostensibly music making within the  romantic tradition, the form and the tone of each track almost indivisible from the other but somehow hypnotic in its repetition and consistency, slowly pulling you into its vortex of late night longing that answers to beauty not reason. Love Chants seemingly do nothing in a hurry, and every moment counts.