[SOLD OUT] OLHAVA "Frozen Bloom" Vinyl 2xLP (gatefold)

Import from Italy. Full color gatefold jacket. Double Black vinyl, sealed. 

Russian blackgaze duo Olhava is back with their new studio album. Frozen Bloom is the natural follow-up to self-titled Olhava (2019) and Ladoga (2020), and integrates some dronescapes the band experimented on Never Leave Me Alone (2020), the drone version of their debut.

Frozen Bloom is Olhava’s fourth opus in three years, and here the duo took some different routes compositionally. Two of the four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages, while the other two are leaning towards a more meditative drone experience.

Multi-instrumentalist Andrey Novozhilov and drummer Timur Yusupov describe their new journey with words of thoughtful contemplation: “When winter is just starting to fade and give some space to the first steps of spring… When life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil, a sudden drop of the temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again, punished by the “Queen of Fields”. This statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is the main metaphor of this album. Frozen Bloom is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow”, which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation is real”.

NOTE: By default item will be unsealed + vinyl will be removed from jacket before shipping to prevent seam splits. We will only send a vinyl LP sealed at your request/liability. If you want it to remain sealed, note at checkout. Otherwise it will arrive unsealed.