DAWNWALKER

Ever-evolving English collective continue to defy pigeonholing on latest album.

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THE IRONY BEHIND Dawnwalker’s new record, House Of Sand, is that it is self-admittedly“claustrophobic and inward looking” – yet it could easily open up the group to a whole new audience. Gone are the 10-plus-minute opuses of the London-based collective’s previous effort, Ages, with a greater focus on the song – and the metal edge is dialled down too. They must be one of the few bands who can cop comparisons to folk, shoegaze and black metal in the same breath, and they’ve previously been described as the“lovechild of Opeth and Kate Bush”. “On the last album, especially, we were trying to explore longer-form songs – we were kind of intentionally stretching everything out beyond the 10-minute mark,” mainman Mark Norgate says. “And this time it’s been the polar opposite.…

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