KËKHT ARÄKH "Pale Swordsman" vinyl LP (color, w/ insert) [kekht arakh]

Metallic silver vinyl, with download card, and printed inner sleeve. 

The sophomore album Pale Swordsman follows yet expands on what KA was already experimenting with in the debut Night & Love. Pale Swordsman goes to even greater extents in building a bold and atmospheric sonic palette, and it’s now seeing a worldwide reissue via Brooklyn label Sacred Bones.

On this album we follow the character’s journey through haunting despair, longing and resignation. The imagery is decisively romantic, almost vampiric with recurring themes of spectral symbolism, darkness, night creatures, blood hunger, the close connection of death and life.

Pale Swordsman delivers a foreboding yet bittersweet melancholy through poetic lyrics, soft interludes, raw and distorted guitars, eerie drums and harsh vocals - a fragile yet potent mix that successfully amplifies the ambience.