Music News - Cautionary Tales release 'No Funeral Blues', the first single from their debut album
19 May 2023 - 0 Comments
Pōneke-based art-rockers Cautionary Tales' new single No Funeral Blues, from their upcoming self-titled debut, is out today.
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An elegy for a friend, No Funeral Blues is a riff on WH Auden’s poem Funeral Blues, arranged as a slow,
creeping post-rock composition. Similar acts include Low, recent Nick Cave
releases, Swans, and Mogwai.
Cautionary Tales is an experimental art-rock
collective, based in Berlin via Aotearoa and NYC. Fronted by Will Marshall, a
songwriter with a swaggering baritone, Cautionary Tales work with a palette
borrowed from contemporary art-rock, Greek myth, modernist poetry, the weirder
edges of electronic music, indie pop and post-punk.
The phrase “cautionary tales” describes one of the
fundamental types of story-telling; the story that tells us “what not to do”.
With roots in folklore and myth, these stories are found in everything from fables,
to epic Greek poetry, to modern horror films, exploring the myriad ways life
can go terribly or comically wrong.
Rooting their story-telling in this ancient form,
Cautionary Tales' debut is a surrealist blend of disparate musical influences.
Often spacious and sometimes bitingly aggressive, they move seamlessly between
post-rock compositions, tight garage-rock grooves, and deep trip-hop, painting
vivid backdrops to Will’s blackly comic narratives.
No Funeral Blues is released 19 May, with the full
album Cautionary Tales released
on 18 August 2023 by Siren Song Records, available at cautionary-tales.bandcamp.com or via streaming services.
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