{"id":17041,"date":"2017-04-19T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17041"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:49","slug":"album-review-galley-beggar-heathen-hymns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17041","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Galley Beggar – Heathen Hymns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galley Beggar – Heathen Hymns<\/strong>
\n Release Date:<\/strong> April 28, 2017
\nLabel<\/strong>: Rise Above Records<\/p>\n

While running a hard rock\/metal blog, things can get a bit too loud and sometimes I find myself needing an escape hatch of sorts into something that is sonically lesser in volume.\u00a0 While some may find themselves dishing out that tired \u201cif it\u2019s too loud, you\u2019re too old\u201d bullshit, others will totally get what I\u2019m saying.\u00a0 Sometimes I find myself wanting take that musical pill that makes me smaller (or tall if you will) and to just lose myself in some kind of deep, ethereal, musical landscape.\u00a0 Recently a door to that landscape was opened for me thanks to a little band out of London\/Kent called Galley Beggar.<\/p>\n

Galley Beggar first popped up on my radar back in 2015 with their album Silence and Tears.\u00a0 While I definitely had a soft spot for that album, for some odd reason it just didn\u2019t stick with me.\u00a0 Fast forward to 2017 when I heard that Galley Beggar would be releasing a new album called Heathen Hymns<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 I immediately found myself re-discovering Silence and Tears and all of the sudden I felt a connection that I didn\u2019t feel the first time around.\u00a0 The fact that I had this new found love for this band and their music had me very eager to hear what their follow up would hold for me.<\/p>\n

Upon receiving my advance of Heathen Hymns<\/strong><\/em>, I put aside all work that I was doing and diverted my attention from any and all distractions.\u00a0 This was an album that I wanted to give my full attention to.\u00a0 The moment the opening track \u201cSalome\u201d started, I just closed my eyes and I began to feel as if I was settling in for some fantastic, musical journey.\u00a0 I found myself complete taken by\u00a0 \u201cFour Birds\u201d which had Galley Beggar taking a step in a a more psych rock direction which was an unexpected but exciting detour.\u00a0 \u201cThe Girl I Left Behind Me\u201d wrapped me up in a cloak of warmth as their Doors-esque instrumental jams took me to a whole new plane of consciousness.\u00a0 “The Lake” really took me to a whole new level with it’s Beatle-esque use of sitar and lush two part harmonies while \u201cMoon and Tide\u201d was a moment in the album where I felt I was achieving a feeling of weightlessness.\u00a0 Heathen Hymns<\/strong><\/em> was really taking me places and I was more than happy to succumb to it’s powers.<\/p>\n