The Doubting Organ, by Holy Family

The Doubting Organ

by Holy Family

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	1.	Ceiling Above Better 14:52		buy track
	2.	Clay Tile Riser 17:04		buy track

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"Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
workmen are beginning the fence.
The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
can stab the life out of any man who falls on them."

from Decoder Magazine:

"Flexible, Chicago-based noise artist Will McEvilly returned this summer for a new pair of recordings under his ambient Holy Family moniker, this time airing things out even more than previous efforts. The 32 minute album — The Doubting Organ — is paced by two longform compositions, each offering a different take on a dreamy and otherworldly feeling. Though there’s a wonderful sense of logic to these compositions, as the pleasantly meandering “Ceiling Above Better” leads into the more active, bright “Clay Tile Riser.” Still, released under a name like The Doubting Organ, it is a little surprising to hear such calming bundles of rumination delivered. Doubt seems endless and anxious when it arrives, a busy mind and paralyzed gut, but Holy Family investigates the total flip of those emotions. Perhaps this is doubt as awakening, as a productive reorientation to the universe and all surroundings, inanimate or organic or metallic. The kitchen floor, those grimy tiles, or the sagging ceiling — truest markers of the forgotten everyday mundane — become reanimated within this lens of doubt. As the lush modulated synthetics play out deep within the second composition, the listener feels certain that doubt was never negative whatsoever, that there was only potential or beauty in this awakening."

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released July 5, 2017

—written/ recorded by Will McEvilly
—mastered by Brian Labycz

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