GRAILS 'Anches En Maat'

'Anches En Maat' is the first new album from GRAILS in over a half-decade following the masterful 'Chalice Hymnal' in 2017 and their first album recorded with all members in the studio together since 'Doomsdayer’s Holiday' in 2008. With every GRAILS album released since 'Doomsdayer’s Holiday' being a sprawling double-album endeavor, 'Anches En Maat' was conceived as a return to the comparatively efficient single LP runtime. With that, GRAILS set out to craft the same sonically dense world that their longer albums showcased, while trading singular indulgences for live collaborative interplay. The core group of founding members Alex Hall and Emil Amos (Om, Holy Sons) joined Jesse Bates, Ilyas Ahmed, and AE Paterra (Zombi, Majeure) in Atlanta, GA to record 'Anches En Maat' together a novel event for a band who had become so accustomed to recording separately and then labouring in post-production for months or even years on end. An improbable blend of melted 1980s softcore and daytime soap opera soundtracks, cosmic minimalism, aching Westerns, melancholy electronic pulses, and massive soul-disco strings, 'Anches En Maat' is one of GRAILS’ most ambitious albums of their 20+ year career. Through continually refining and maturing their vision as a band, GRAILS have stumbled upon a reprogramming of their internal logic and come out the other side with a new defining statement.