Brutus Greenshield's newest full length record, Sharpened Buds Like Lances, signals a shift in the project's conceptual focus and an expansion of its sonic palette -- while maintaining the essential blend of organic and synthetic, atmospheric and melodic, which the duo has built its sound upon with previous releases. Sharpened Buds Like Lances, though still as steeped in medieval fantasy and forgotten pasts, finds Brutus Greenshield's musical imagination moving away from the strife and isolation of human conflicts into the realm of the natural world. It presents an image of nature left alone, an ambiguous scene of overgrowth not promising but melancholic and fraught. Here, trees, water and stones serve as conduits for the project's vision of a spectral world where circuits and pixels meld with crumbling structures and disembodied breaths.

New track showcase for "Stricken Oak, Grasping at Stones" at the illustrious occult music webzine The Call of the Night:

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released June 5, 2021