Official press release:
Some dudes just can’t get enough of playing music together. Such is the case of Ryan Parrish, Graham Scala, and Brent Eyestone. In addition to comprising 3/4 of the short, fast, and loud kill unit Bleach Everything and 3/5 of heavy indie rockers Highness, the trio of friends comprises 100% of Harmonic Cross.
It Is Finished. marks the debut album for Harmonic Cross, six songs that teeter more toward the ethereal and ambient while maintaining the rather specific and certain darkness that permeates the previous output of its members both collectively and off on their own. The album functions as a conceptual soundtrack to an actual, unexplained true crime event commonly referred to as “The Somerton Man” (also known as “The Taman Shud Case”). In the case, an unidentified, well-dressed man is found dead along a seawall on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia. A printed scrap of paper cut out from a book reading “tamam shud” (meaning “finished” in Persian) is found sewn into a hidden pocket of his pants. The book itself is later found and contains several hand-written ciphers. The Ciphers were never solved. The corpse was never identified. Even the book itself appears to be from an edition that has no record of ever being printed.
Each track on It Is Finished. coincides with one of the five specific ciphers written into that copy of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with the last track being dedicated to final meditation on the concept of “tamam shud” (It is finished.) All artwork was drawn from crime scene photography surrounding the case.
Packaged in a gorgeous chipboard jacket with metallic inks, the album itself was tracked live and mixed by Harmonic Cross member Brent Eyestone and mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound (Star Trek: Into the Darkness, The Walking Dead, House of Cards, Sons of Anarchy).
No Clean Singing has unveiled the first audio of the debut from Harmonic Cross, issuing the LP’s second track, “MLIAOI”. Stream it now below:
Magic Bullet Records will issue It Is Finished. digitally on July 17th, followed by a 12″ vinyl delivery on July 24th, with both green and black pressings for the first run. Physical and digital preorders will be posted in the coming days.
It is Finished. track listing:
1. “WRGOABABD”
2. “MLIAOI”
3. “WTBIMPANETP”
4. “MLIABOAIAQC”
5. “ITTMTSAMSTGAB”
6. “TAMAN SHUD”
