The heavy morning dew on the fields. The wind that sways the treetops. The hawk that soars under the sun. The shadows of twilight. The low full moon and the dark of night.
Our debut album, Twilight Vision, on California’s Attacknine Records is now available. Check out www.darla.com, www.attacknine.com (digital download also available) and fine record stores everywhere.
"There are lots of bands whose music is either totally atmospheric or totally instrumental...but few we can think of whose music almost perfectly balances the two. To be a bit more direct, the music on Twilight Vision is subtle and heady and cerebral...but there are actual notes and melodies in these compositions (although generally very subtle and muted in effects). The White Lodge is a married duo consisting of Steven (her husband) and Emiliana (his wife). It somehow seems curious that a married couple would be involved in producing music like this. We’re used to hearing married folks creating happy, upbeat pop and anxious hard rock...but artsy impressionistic instrumentals...? The good news is that not only are these folks taking a different path...but upon closer observation the music turns out to be substantial and highly rewarding. These tunes aren’t just weird electronic slop thrown together with lots of reverb added to fool listeners. Steven and Emiliana obviously spent a great deal of time creating these intelligent and hypnotic tracks. Beautiful as background music...but also mentally stimulating if you turn up the volume a bit. Ten classy cuts. Recommended. (Rating: 5++) Babysue
Twilight Vision is the debut album from husband and wife duo The White Lodge. Living in eastern Appalachia, the two create music roughly inspired by the ghosts of music past from their physical location, then stretch it and blur it into textural, meditative pieces that are somewhere between lo-fi space/psych rock and ambient music. Pastoral at times and slightly unsettling in others, it’s largely created with organic instrumentation but plays out like loop-based electronic music.Usually based around a repeated electric or acoustic guitar phrase, the songs on Twilight Vision build and evolve as everything from flutes, bells, organ, and other drones are slowly added and then taken away. "Come Twilight" opens the release and finds a very quiet acoustic guitar melody offset with multiple layers of subdued feedback, quiet organ melodies, glinting bells and murky cymbals. "Firelight" takes a slightly different route, as odd percussion clunks around behind soft wafts of drones and a five-note guitar melody that slowly gets swallowed up.As mentioned above, the duo doesn’t vary the construction of the tracks very much at all over the course of the release, with nearly every song playing out as a soft crescendo that finds elements being added and then peeled away. On the bright side, they’ve created some really lovely sounds here, coming in somewhere between Fennesz, early Labradford, and The Blithe Sons. Some nice sounds for a debut, but here’s hoping they can stretch their compositional skills in the future. AlmostCool.org
"The egrets would swoop through the sky, a great white bird, not unlike a pterodactyl... only to land by another and they would proceed to dance, taking flight once again to hide within the trees. The blue heron walked with us, from across the water, mimicking our every step, so imperial.I was unsure if the sounds from the woods... insects chirping and others buzzing... were emanating from within the music or not. If the cackle of the mallards were part of the background drone.I need to get out more often, because I had a wonderous experience." Paramnesic
... "They make melodic, lonesome, and pretty music that is as gentle and frail as it is dark and curious. It is a turning of the ear, a ’listening’ at the winding path through the woods at night, and the mysterious communication it brings with it." Attacknine Records
"The White Lodge is a fitting name for a sound like this. The songs evoke feelings of being hidden away from yourself and everyone else in your life in the back of a log cabin. It’s nestled somewhere amongst infinite rows of pine trees. Blankets of snow are wrapped around every last stone and log. There’s a fire in your main room that’s just big enough to keep you from freezing to death but not big enough to actually keep you warm. Typewriter loops and twinkling bells fall around like snowflakes and quiet walls of guitar noise ring out shyly but steadily into the open.The first few tracks seem to follow this formula of frigid drone and icey soundscapes, to an almost completely unvarying degree. Luckily things are broken up and set straight by the sudden appeareance of an almost joyful acoustic guitar on "Hawk Watch". It’s like a sunrise over the cold mountain. It’s a slight break of light. The record continues on in this sort of contrasting opposites pattern of dark long drones, brighter picked guitar, and combinations of the two.The White Lodge have crafted a steady and well-made record......."
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