LATHELIGHT LTD > LLL007 SEAWALKER. Every Love Unwinds. CD order this item 01. The Dead Sea 02. Slut 03. Flower 04. Revolver 05. Tomorrow / Drive 06. Urchin 07. Imaginary   new post Accelera Deck project that builds on the sound explored on the album A Landslide of Stars and the 7" Songshape words and music by seawalker, except flower words by sonic youth THE DEAD SEA we are a center with no center exacting form and shape we have become an infinite sound extracting alpha and omega we have become a headless godhead extolling virtue and action every love unwinds, and drifts on the dead sea swallow the centuries of heartbreak and lust and shatter bones of the body of trust scrape the dross of history explain the myth and the mystery breathe the breath with the devil inside in cosmic love with the christ suicide every love unwinds, and drifts on the dead sea every love defies, every love abides every love unwinds, and drifts on the dead sea SLUT sleep and sex the saviour of your soul phallus christ fills your empty hole a thousand eyes have greeted you, a thousand hands have held you a thousand times you've sold your soul for love sleep and sex the saviour of your soul vagina christ speaks love from lips below a thousand eyes have greeted you, a thousand hands have held you a thousand times you've sold your soul for love FLOWER support the power of women, use the power of man support the flower of women, use the word fuck, the word is love TOMORROW / DRIVE now to raise the fallen, now to raise the dead now to heed the calling, scream colossal red now to kiss the trauma, bow to breathe the light live the new tomorrow, roses growing bright now to walk the roses, now to split the wolves love that now exposes, wounds that push & pull christ reclaim the fallen, bow to kiss the dead forgive & now forgotten, bleed colossal red URCHIN sing a song to starve the sun, the setting old thought child sing the words for a revolution, the coming new thought child sing a song to starve the earth, betray the old thought child funeral song at the birth, behold the new thought child sing a song to starve our voice, silence the old thought child sing a life within a choice, welcome the new thought child sing a song to starve ourselves, set free the old thought child sing a heaven within this hell, crown the new thought child bless the new thought children, they will be our wisdom bless the new thought children, they will be our wisdom bless the new thought children, they will be our wisdom bless the new thought children, they will be our wisdom REVIEWS Not a whole lot of clarifying info accompanies this fifty-minute Seawalker opus but suffice it to say it's a new post-Accelera Deck project spearheaded by Chris Jeely who pairs his vocals and molten guitar with the fellow axe-work of Wes Daniel and drumming of Beth Ragland. Yep, it's a bass-less trio but you'd probably never hear the instrument anyway given the band's volcanic wail. Seawalker builds on the sound Jeely explored on the album A Landslide of Stars and the 7-inch Songshape, and offers a stylistic middle ground between the experimental guitar-based explorations of Accelera Deck and the concise song-structured attack of a hellacious metal band. Both sides come variously to the fore during the album's seven tracks, though vocal tracks predominate. “The Dead Sea” (whose lyrics “Every love unwinds, and drifts on the Dead Sea” provides the album title) unleashes the album with a maelstrom of guitar shredding courtesy of Jeely and Daniel; singing appears too though one strains to hear let alone decipher the words due to the deafening roar. “Slut” (“Sleep and sex the saviour of your soul”) and “Urchin” roar a little less tempestuously, while text by Sonic Youth is recited in “Flower,” though again it's barely audible when coupled with a writhing behemoth of guitar roar and drum tumult. A funky drum groove kicks “Tomorrow / Drive” into gear with Jeely's verses clearly heard against the band's controlled backing—a relatively benign beginning for an eighteen-minute throwdown where the guitars' obsessive snarl just gets heavier and heavier as they drill a two-chord riff into the ground. The instrumental “Revolver” is reminiscent of Accelera Deck in its drone-like flow (listen closely and beyond the jagged guitar stream at the forefront the faint glow of a placid melody can be detected), as is the atmospheric album closer “Imaginary.” Every Love Unwinds is a powerful and loud outing, to put it mildly, but not an off-putting one, though one wishes a few more Accelera Deck-styled pieces had been included to create a more even balance between vocal songs and instrumentals. http://www.textura.org/reviews/seawalker.htm

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