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Set Sail (CD)
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Vancouver’s most endearing hardcore quartet Anchoress flex their creative muscle after the release of their debut album Set Sail and prepare to unleash their follow up album Crime & Compass on File Under: Music. This new effort chronicles the struggles and hardships of the human condition while celebrating personal accomplishment and relationships. Together as a complete endeavor, Crime and Compass is the ultimate hard and honest look at life portrayed in a beautiful, fearless and unrelenting piece of art. Regarding the first part of the release, the band has this to say:

Crime is a stylized sojourn through some of the darkness that covers our lives. It’s about the inevitability of destruction and the equally inevitable reconstruction. It’s about drug addiction and our damaged environment. It’s about dealing with situations that we can’t understand while trying to stay sane. It’s about the places we go when we can’t and of course, it’s about crime. All of these things can seem overwhelming; they are heart-sinks that can seem unendurable. But the night will always end with the coming of the day. “

Giving fans the chance to absorb this first piece of the story, shortly after they will release the next chapter in this rock & roll magnum opus:

Compass is the whimsy and all the little joys that make life wonderful. It’s the adventures that lead us home and shape us into the people we become. It’s the quiet moments of introspection and the gleeful exuberance of love. It’s our dreams and the knowledge that however bad things may seem, they won’t always be; with perseverance we shall overcome.”

To complete the whole picture, the whole album has to be digested over time and appreciated gradually, which prompted the decision to release it over time. Like waiting for the next installment of your favourite series of books, films, television and essentially all valuable media, Crime and Compass promises to leave fans waiting for more and feeling that beautiful anticipation. Once the time is right, Anchoress will reveal the full package in a special vinyl edition to show appreciation for fans patiently waiting and sticking it out.

Crime & Compass is the balance in all things, the duality of the human condition. We are bursting with beauty and savagery, and that’s what makes us who we are. We are flawed and imperfect but we will never let that stop us from being extraordinary.”

Taking a page from Dante’s DivineComedy, Anchoress has prepared something special: an epic tale that moves across the spectrum of emotions, life experiences and deals with the failures and achievements that propel and drive the human spirit. Combining the pounding rhythm section of drummer Christopher Lennox-Aasen and bassist Ricky Castanedo, Keenan Federico’s angular guitar skills and Rob Hoover’s sharp wit and heart-wrenching vocals, the band has evolved and is ready to display their next step in making art of their (and all of our) world.

 


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