Frozen Niagara Falls

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Length 91:34 Release date 12 May 2015 Label Profound Lore Records		Artist Dominick Fernow Genre Goth/industrial

Released May 12, 2015 (2015-05-12) Recorded Winter 2013 – Winter 2015 in New York City Producer Dominick Fernow, Kris Lapke, Arthur Rizk Similar Dominick Fernow albums, Other albums

Prurient frozen niagara falls album review

Frozen Niagara Falls is a double album by the American musical project Prurient, the performing name of the artist Dominick Fernow. It was released on May 12, 2015 through Profound Lore Records. Leading up to its official release date, Frozen Niagara Falls was promoted with online streams of "Dragonflies to Sew You Up" and "Greenpoint". Fernow originally intended to derive all of the album's sounds from acoustic sources with no electronics at all, "any acoustic sound we could generate, even at a high volume. Things being destroyed, rocks being cracked in half and hurled around and that kind of stuff.[...] I felt I kind of needed a necessity to try and return to the idea of noise committed with the physical."

Prurient christ among the broken glass

Critical reception

Frozen Niagara Falls received very positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic (a review aggregator site which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from music critics), based on 16 critics, the album has received a score of 84/100, which indicates "universal acclaim". Pitchfork wrote that "With Niagara, he's taken strengths from his entire oeuvre to reach deeper into himself and produce what may be his best record yet, one that brings all the fulfillment of noise and transcends them all the same. [...] He offers an endless, probing self-exploration that simply isn't found in noise, metal, hardcore, power electronics, whatever harsh music you can think of." The Quietus were positive in their assessment of the album, writing that "Rushing static, distant growls, and harsh noises duel on top of the dramatic central theme, yet it remains more beautiful and tragic than harsh or angry. It's a compellingly emotional and driven tone that permeates several of the album's key tracks."

Track listing

Music arranged by Dominick Fernow, Kris Lapke and Arthur Rizk; lyrics by Fernow.

Disc 1

"Myth of Building Bridges" – 10:17
"Dragonflies to Sew You Up" – 5:19
"A Sorrow with a Braid" – 4:53
"Every Relationship Earthrise" – 3:13
"Traditional Snowfall" – 5:16
"Jester In Agony" – 7:14
"Poinsettia Pills" – 3:16
"Shoulders of Summerstones" – 5:16

Disc 2

"Wildflowers (Long Hair With Stocking Cap)" – 0:38
"Greenpoint" – 10:09
"Lives Torn Apart (NYC)" – 3:23
"Frozen Niagara Falls (Portion One)" – 7:02
"Cocaine Daughter" – 5:01
"Falling Mask" – 1:57
"Frozen Niagara Falls (Portion Two)" – 7:19
"Christ Among The Broken Glass" – 11:21

Personnel

Frozen Niagara Falls adapted from CD liner notes.

Music and lyrics

Jean Feraca – additional lyric editing

Dominick Fernow – arranging, lyrics

Kris Lapke – arranging; additional: synthesizer, electronics, fretless bass, field recording, percussion

Jim Mroz – additional field recording

Arthur Rizk – arranging; additional: electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, acoustic guitar, fretless bass, field recording, percussion

Production

Paul Corley – mastering

Dominick Fernow – production, mixing

Kris Lapke – production, mixing

Arthur Rizk – production, mixing

Artwork and packaging

Becka Diamond – cover photography, additional photography

Dominick Fernow – art direction, design, additional photography

Adam Gordon – untitled sculpture and painting

Matt Kenny – comedy masks

Adam Marnie – red cross

Nikolay Saveliev – art direction, design

Scott Bryan Wilson – additional text editing

Songs

1Myth Of Building Bridges10:18
2Dragonflies To Sew You Up5:19
3A Sorrow With A Braid4:53

References

Frozen Niagara Falls Wikipedia

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