Premiere: Slip into the Undertow of Sorrow with doomy folk from Zeresh

Zeresh (AKA Tamar Singer) has always existed in the twilight space between, well, everything. At times sounding like the folky, acoustic cousin of bands like Candlemass, while at others like the doomy niece of the neo-folk tradition traced down from Current 93 and Death in June. All, naturally, of course, filtered through that old-soul aspect of Singer's writing that almost always makes it seem out of time, not quite Medieval nor futuristic. The music of the past channeled toward the future.

These tendencies are all there in their brand new single, from Zeresh's upcoming album. Only added to that funeral home of sounds and feelings is the almost caustic eeriness introduced by Singer's collaborators, Euski and LYS. The music, as with everything Singer touches, beautiful and, as also always, deeply unsettling, as if you're listening to what appears to be a simple song with simple lyrics (heyo Longfellow), and yet left with the sense of just having been visited by a ghost. The beautiful cover, it should be noted, was created by Noa Charuvi.

Listen to the wonderful new single "Excelsior" right here ahead of its release, and support good people doing good things.

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