Waking by Starer
All instruments, recording, mixing, mastering and photography by Josh Hines.
Waking is the unreleased cut track from the 2023 album Wind, Breeze, or Breath.
Transience is previously unreleased. It dates back to around 2021 or 2022.
Disputation is previously unreleased from 2024.
Insertion is the bonus track from the 2022 EP Remorse Defines Me. It’s been remixed and re-mastered.
Tether is from the original 2020 self titled Starer EP. It’s been remixed and remastered.
Tracklist
| 1. | Waking | 5:40 |
| 2. | Transience | 6:46 |
| 3. | Disputation | 6:54 |
| 4. | Insertion | 4:54 |
| 5. | Tether | 5:39 |
Credits
released August 16, 2024
Top release of Kentucky 2024
- Forever Steel
#7 metal song of September
“ In the end, though, it reaches a higher plane, a gorgeous, luminous one to which Starer has special access, where weighed with cares and scarred by the past, a kind of peace awaits.”
- Stereogum
“The latest Starer release is a bundle of previously unreleased tracks that were written or recorded throughout the past four years. The USBM influence pervades each one, with traces of Panopticon, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Weakling poking through. That being said, they’re merely influences. Starer’s tracks are stuffed tight with horns, dense guitar harmonies, and bombastic drums, flying in the face of the traditional Appalachian sound.”
- Invisible Oranges
“The drums hurtle, the sweep of the music is grim, horns seem to blaze in the upper reaches, the gleaming lead guitar feverishly flickers, and the serrated-edge vocals roar in harrowing fashion and seem to become the cacophony of combatants.”
- No Clean Singing
"Melodic, far-reaching black metal with a semi-bleak tone, like a gale across a mostly barren landscape, revealing patches of struggling vegetation among the dust and rock."
- The Metal Dispatch
Top release of Kentucky 2024
- Forever Steel
#7 metal song of September
“ In the end, though, it reaches a higher plane, a gorgeous, luminous one to which Starer has special access, where weighed with cares and scarred by the past, a kind of peace awaits.”
- Stereogum
“The latest Starer release is a bundle of previously unreleased tracks that were written or recorded throughout the past four years. The USBM influence pervades each one, with traces of Panopticon, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Weakling poking through. That being said, they’re merely influences. Starer’s tracks are stuffed tight with horns, dense guitar harmonies, and bombastic drums, flying in the face of the traditional Appalachian sound.”
- Invisible Oranges
“The drums hurtle, the sweep of the music is grim, horns seem to blaze in the upper reaches, the gleaming lead guitar feverishly flickers, and the serrated-edge vocals roar in harrowing fashion and seem to become the cacophony of combatants.”
- No Clean Singing
"Melodic, far-reaching black metal with a semi-bleak tone, like a gale across a mostly barren landscape, revealing patches of struggling vegetation among the dust and rock."
- The Metal Dispatch
