Herd of Instinct "Incantation"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Firepool Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: October 21, 2019 (digital), October 31, 2019 (CD)
Tracklist: 
1. Sun Gun (5:48)
2. Incantation One (6:38)
3. Coin Locker Babies (4:31)
4. Prey 4 Winter (5:52)
5. Myth And Ritual (2:52)
6. Abaddon (4:33)
7. Pavement Grey (6:17)
8. Temples (4:24)
9. Incantation Two (5:35)
10. Torture Garden (3:38)

Total Time 50:08

Line-up: 
Mark Cook (Spoke of Shadows) – Warr guitar, fretless bass, guitar, keyboards, and string arrangements
Bill Bachman (Spoke of Shadows, Neil Morse) – drums and percussion
Mike McGary – piano and synth
Rick Read – Chapman Stick, bass, and keyboards
   With
Elaine Di Falco (Thinking Plague) – vocals and lyrics
Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree, Ork) – fretless bass and ebow
Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet, Fernwood) – Mellotron, Rhodes, Moog, Hammond, harmonium, guitar, and tambura
Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson) – Rhodes, Moog, Mellotron, and Hammond
Stephen Page (Stonebriar String Quartet) – violin
Craig Shropshire (Impending Bloom) – hand percussion and gong
Dave Streett – Warr guitar

Description/Reviews: 

Herd of Instinct’s fifth album, Incantation, is the band’s most dynamic and radical release yet. The music explores the band’s progressive rock vocabulary mixed with excursions into densely layered post-rock compositions and hybrid orchestral styles.
Incantation moves through pieces that fit neatly with the band’s previous work. The band also travels into new areas that take their music into new directions. It’s this “otherness" that makes this collection such a unique and challenging album.
The minimal orchestral piece Myth and Ritual is a homage to avant-auteur Scott Walker, written a short time after his death, that references his stark and brutal compositional style. The two-part title track is a trip into avant-prog featuring a superstar list of players who help produce one of HOI’s most adventurous pieces. This is also the first album that features vocals since their self-titled debut release, back in 2011.

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp (from release date)
Incantation One
Myth and Ritual
Trailer 1
Trailer 2

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