COME HELL OR HIGH WATER

The Flowers Of Hell

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Post Rock/Math rock

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Studio Album, released in 2009

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Opus 66 (Part 1) (4:15)
2. Blumchen (6:20)
3. Forest of Noise (3:43)
4. The Strength of String (4:05)
5. White Out (3:24)
6. Darklands (5:09)
7. Pipe Dreams (5:27)
8. The Invocation (3:37)
9. Past Tense (4:47)
10. Occasional Tears (4:02)

Total Time 44:49

Line-up / Musicians

- Greg Jarvis / electric guitar (1,2,5,6), piano (2,9), keyboards, programmed by (2), performer [Swerpeti] (5), bass (7)
- Tom Hodges / baritone saxophone (1,2), flute (1), bass harmonica (2), saw (7)
- Will Carruthers / bass (1)
- Jon McCann / drums & percussion (1,8)
- Brian Taylor / flute (1,5,7)
- Barry Newman / harmonica (1,5,9), bass (9)
- Ray Dickaty / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone (1,3,5)
- Owen James / trumpet (1-3,8,), trombone (8)
- Abi Fry / viola (1-4,6,9)
- Julie Penner / violin (1,2,4)
- Melanie Draisey / violin (1,2,5,9)
- Ronnie Morris / bass (2,6)
- Owen James / trumpet (1-3,8), trombone (8)
- Jan P. Muchow / keyboards, programmed by (3,4,10), piano (10)
- Ian Thorn / trumpet (2)
- Steve Head / acoustic guitar (5,6)
- Ivan Kral / bass (5)
- Hypnotique / clarinet (5)
- Linda Bush / drums & percussion (5)
- Guri Hummelsund / drums & percussion (6,9) voice (6)
- Jeremiah Knight / EBow (6)
- Amy Laing / cello (7)
- David Gee / drums & percussion, keyboards, programmed by (7)
- John Mark Lapham / keyboards, programmed by (8)
- Tom Knott / trumpet (8)
- Anna-Nicole Ziesche / voice (2)
- Hazrat Inayat Khan / voice (8)

Releases information

Recorded in London, Toronto, Prague, Detroit and Abilene TX.
Arranged by - Greg Jarvis
Mastered by - Denis Blackham
Mixed by - Greg Jarvis (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10), John Mark Lapham (track 8), Jan P. Muchow (tracks 3, 4, 10), Sonic Boom (tracks 2, 5, 7), Tom Knott (tracks 1, 6, 9)
Producer - Greg Jarvis

CD Benbecula Records - BEN046CD (2009, UK)

CD Unfamiliar Records - UN011 (2009, Canada)

Vinyl LP Saved By Vinyl - SBVHELL (2009, Canada)

Digital album

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Review by Sean Trane
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk

Second album from the UK pos-rock combo, this time enhanced with a bunch of guest and recorded over both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the vast line-up, apparently only Ruth Barlow left the band, but given the messy instrument credit list, it's rather hard to tell if she's been replaced or not. They've been playing so many different tools, probably each other's, that it looks like an orgy, but sadly this isn't anything close to wild stuff, on the contrary. In either case, FOH uses another folk-type of artwork for their digipak, but it's definitely not any folkier than their typical post-rock of their debut release.

But CHOHW isn't an exact carbon copy of its predecessor, it has its own particularities, namely the phantasmagorical and aptly-named Forest Of Noise, where there are orchestral enhancements. There are other atypical traits when comparing to its older brother, but again nothing groundbreaking or even a tad refreshing that would add a bit to the genre's well flogged-to-death clich�s. Unless you're a total post-rock nutcase, FoH is nothing to write home about, but it's one more building block to Babel's unending tower

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