Taleen Kali | Black Rose

Description

Hot off the heels of their critically renowned debut album Flower of Life, L.A.’s dark underground darlings Taleen Kali return with a densely crafted sophomore album. Aepex represents an exciting darker direction taken by the band with influences ranging from The Horrors, Sextile, L.A. Witch, Tamaryn, Curve, Chapterhouse, and more.

From the eponymous anti-capitalistic, post-content anthem opener “Aepex” to the dreamy dirge closing track “Crossed,” the album has ceaseless moments devastating tension accompanied by cosmic transcendence. It features heavy breakbeat drums, incendiary beat changes, Middle Eastern melodies, swirling sheets of guitar fuzz, and dark feminine vocals with a powerful range: from commanding to sugar-sweet. The band’s signature mashup of post-punk, L.A. punk, and shoegaze finds itself moving from the light-hearted beach into the mystical desert realms, coalescing into a haunting and alluring body of work that’s much needed during these dark times.

For the new era of sounds, Taleen Kali returned to The Cave Studios to record with engineer and producer Josiah Mazzaschi (Light FM, Bizou, Child Seat) who also mixed and mastered the album. The band enlisted the help of Chris King (Cold Showers, Kai Tak) for additional mixing on “Aepex” and “Crossed,” and invited AFI’s Hunter Burgan to play saxophone on the dark psych-meets-riot-grrrl “Black Rose” and bass on “Eternal Eye” which is a saccharine sweet shoegaze song set against a heavy rhythm section. This release also collects the earlier singles “Viper,” “Aepex,” and “Crossed.”

Track Listing

1. Black Rose (3:33)
2. Viper (3:46)
3. Aepex (3:50)
4. Crossed (3:35)

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