Returning (US) - Numinous
Digital download
https://endlessreturning.bandcamp.com/album/numinous
Beneath the ethereal passing within the crepuscular dome, the perpetual flight of earthlings and their purest joy, the sinking sun embraces your vision in a tranquil stillness. It hence receives you once more into this ancestral bind of decay and rebirth. Mountains and forests and rivers and their own passings, a concurrent yearning for the Sacred of old -- for Their guidance within the True Equilibrium. Immerse yourself and dissolve into this Numinous Luster, and find your roots among those numberless tangled -- cradled within the earth -- forevermore.
An album consists of nothing but the uncontaminated shining, the second full-length of Returning presents a meticulously sewn meshwork of folk melodies and cathartic Atmospheric BM deluge. Arguably one of the most exciting new acts from the Cascadian BM scene, Returning manages to capture the spirit of originality in this 46-minute ode to a Nature known so dearly by our ancestors for eons and more. Like how the band states, it was “created to be experienced live, under the stars, bare feet planted in soil” -- a sensation so accurate that by listening along, that peaceful calmness will slowly permeate every organ of your buddy -- and dreams -- with resolution, with reminiscence.