Elijah Forrest has been releasing material under the Terrors moniker for about a couple years now, using a guitar and various effects as his primary instruments. His intimate and sparse recordings shortly began enamoring listeners with modest cassette editions on noteworthy labels including Bathetic Records, Cavelife, and Monorail Trespassing. His most abundant effort, Lagan Qord, selects highlights from the now long-gone tapes, given on vinyl, CD, and digital mediums by Sacramento's Weird Forest Records and remastered by compositional innovator Sean McCann.
Lagan Qord feels right at home on the label's roster as it sits alongside artists such as Noveller, Grouper, and Winter Drones, all of which contend for apt comparisons. The warmth of Forrest's hiss-veiled and cavernous nocturnes channel the mystifying allure of Liz Harris's blissful passages, and its dichotomy between songwriting and sound-crafting is a dynamic akin to Blood in the Coffin. Forrest's voice attains an apparition-like presence, floating atop dim and smoky guitar melodies, seldom drifting in-and-out of tandem with thoughtful strums, as heard on "Coffin Tongue". Instrumental voyages "Lying on Heather in the Highlands" and "Soft Proliferating Light" wade and shimmer in a kitchen-sink shroud, bending about woozily.
Similar to an evening alone in a cabin, Lagan Qord dwells between comfort and unease. The bustle of outside animals vexes slumber, yet the lilt of brushing trees abates the ferment. Swathed in vast acoustics, Forrest's dismal croons resonate and amplify solitude. Though collated from a handful of early works Terrors' sound diversely runs its thread through these nine tracks and entwines them. Lagan Qord is a bleak and intimate relic, warbled in a cracked shell and carried by loose spools.
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