A Pregnant Light - Eating Emeralds / Threshold Angel (download)
The ninth and tenth songs released by APL this year. A year documented in singles while preparing the third full length LP. Because work never stops. Perhaps the best songs have been saved for last. Each song released this year felt like a nice place to stop. It felt like enough and I could continue work on the album. The music kept pouring out of me. Every month that passed felt like I had something more to get out. Something was clawing inside of me. From the furious start of “Eating Emeralds” it became clear that I was not done. My work was not finished until I could fight these songs away from the spirit I suspected was hiding them inside of me. Pages of lyrics poured out of me, and I had no choice but to sing them as fast as possible, and what is left is a frantic, holy document of true purple metal. The middle eight of “Threshold Angel” contains perhaps the prettiest moment of any song this year, and something I think would be appropriate to be played at my funeral (which I feel could be any day now). Rather than limping across the finish line of this self-imposed marathon, I found myself blessed enough to muster a final burst of intangible, nonmaterial power. Thank you to all for listening throughout this year. From “Beast About” to “Threshold Angel” the map of my year is now yours. Thank you. Do not follow me down.
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Eating Emeralds
Threshold Angel