We told you a couple of months ago about Blue Water White Death, the collaboration between Jamie Stewart and Jonathan Meiburg, frontmen of Xiu Xiu and Shearwater respectively. Since then updates have been in short supply, their website still reads “coming soon.” However Stereogum have just premiered a track from the album called “Song For The Great Jihad” which you can check out below.
MP3: Blue Water White Death – “Song For The Great Jihad”
The description of the album posted in that Stereogum piece reads as follows
“On first listen Blue Water White Death may sound like a pair of reclusive eccentrics making music in a derelict mansion, perilously balancing beauty and horror with the absurd. Soon, it becomes apparent that there are three distinct modes at play – clean, even tones and the nonchalant picking of acoustic guitars that recall life on the open sea, notes and words paced like breaststrokes on the journey to the depths and finally, jarring mysterious noises meshed with vocals that echo the isolated, garbled quantities of the inside of a diver’s mask.”
And you can certainly hear a lot of that in this song.
Graveface will release the self-titled album on October 12th.
