ERRA have never shied away from ambition, and “i. the many names of god” is one of the most deliberately constructed singles they’ve released. Out now via UNFD, the track opens the closing trilogy of their forthcoming album ‘silence outlives the earth’, a 3-part sequence that includes “ii. in the gut of the wolf” and “iii. twilight in the reflection of dreams,” and it marks a distinct tonal shift from everything that precedes it on the record.
The band frames the trilogy’s role with precision. “The trilogy represents a distinct shift in tone from the previous songs on the record. The record transitions to a darker place at this point, and many names serves to take the heaviest moods expressed in the preceding tracks and visceralize them.” That visceralization is immediate and unrelenting, seething with brutal discontent from the first note to the last.
The single follows “further eden,” which Revolver described as “full of synth-glossed melodies and breakbeats, but likewise concrete-smashing breakdowns and tense, effects-explosive guitar riffs.” Together the 2 singles sketch the full emotional and sonic range of ‘silence outlives the earth’, a record that clearly has something serious to say and the musical architecture to say it.