Six Organs of Admittance - Asleep On The Floodplain

Comprised of ten blissful, primarily acoustic tunes, a
delicacy wafts forth from ‘Asleep On The Floodplain’, the
new album by Six Organs Of Admittance.

After 2009’s sonically dense ‘Luminous Night’, Ben Chasny
returned to the familiar environs of home recording to
sculpt and assemble this batch of jams, freeing himself
from the restrictions and deadlines studios might normally
impose upon a song, thus creating a living nest in which
this material could grow and breathe. The album took
longer to complete but sounds effortless and bright with
light.

Much of ‘Asleep On The Floodplain’ draws on imagery from
Chasny’s youth, a time spent in Elk River. ‘Dawn, Running
Home’ remembers sleepovers in a friend’s tree-fort and the
subsequent morning’s return to Ben’s own house. He
wrote ‘Above A Desert I’ve Never Seen’ while bedridden
for a week. ‘Hold But Let Go’ was meant for a film, but
never used.

Maintaining Six Organs’ penchant for cameos, Elisa
Ambrogio contributes to ‘River Of My Youth’, the
theopoetics of Catherine Keller resonate on ‘S/Word And
Leviathan’, and Gaston Bachelard’s poetics of reverie are
felt throughout the record.

Working alone allowed for what could be described as a
more cohesive album, giving Chasny time to reflect and
make his own conclusions about how a song should move,
or when it was finished, in his own time. To that end, each
song is memorable of its own volition, yet drifts as
necessary onto the common plane of ‘Asleep On The
Floodplain’.

Tracklisting:

1. Above A Desert I’veNever Seen
2. Light Of The Light
3. Brilliant Blue SeaBetween Us
4. Saint Of Fishermen
5. Hold But Let Go
6. River Of My Youth
7. Poppies
8. S/Word And Leviathan
9. A New Name On An OldCement Bridge
10. Dawn, Running Home

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