![]() ![]() In Exile is Our Season Draws Near on acid. As Madam X noted, Our Season Draws Near drew together the Neoclassical and experimental soundtrack of 2016’s Edgar Allen Poe: A Life of Hope & Despair and the tribal elements of EP Smoke in the Sky, combining them with something approaching crust punk (“Ettins” and “Winter of Winds”) to create a quite unique sound. Even having listened to some of 1476’s back catalog, I wasn’t quite prepared for how … disparate the record would be. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been as bewildered as I have been by In Exile for a long time. Will In Exile, the fourth full-length record from this Salem, Massachusetts duo, 1 get me knifed in my sleep? 2 A lot of pressure, as Her Blackness Madam X reviewed (and 4.0ed) 1476’s last effort, Our Season Draws Near, and it has been made known to me that I can expect a shiv in the night if I fuck up this review. A lot of styles and influences-the accompanying blurb describes In Exile as “wonderfully all over the place” the latter part of that statement isn’t wrong but the adverb, we’ll see. A lot of music, clocking in at over an hour. Having dropped my previous promo for this week because I had suspicions about the political leanings of its members (that it was bollocks made this a happy development), I picked up 1476 on a whim. ![]() Well, 1476’s In Exile is certainly more than I bargained for. ![]()
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