I thought, Whoa, what's that? And then the day the music died, it just came out. "As I was fiddling around, I started singing this thing about the Buddy Holly crash, the thing that came out (singing), 'Long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.' "For some reason I wanted to write a big song about America and about politics, but I wanted to do it in a different way," he said. "The Angelus seem to have not only captured the mood of these times, they’re also walking it through the streets with a bell round its neck for everyone to see.When he was a guest on the UK show Songbook, McLean talked about how he composed this song. “A very appealing dose of dark psychedelic rock.” "The North Texas trio reaches across humankind with a body-rattling, desert-swept heft. The pleading voices and resounding chords here do not decay because they belong to any ears open to hear them as they reverberate for eternity. The album, saturated with plaintive, intoning, and harmonizing vocals, despairing lyrics and darkly droning guitar, draws from post-rock, doom, folk, and dark psychedelic rock. The Dallas, Texas trio consists of Emil Rapstine (Dead To A Dying World) on guitar and vocals, accompanied by his stalwart co-conspirator Justin Evans on drums and backing vocals, and their newest accomplice Justin Ward on bass. The cover art, featuring a highly stylized rendering of a white peacock resembling the traditional description of the phoenix, reinforces the hope that rebirth through creation allows us to live forever in the material world. An album full of songs both powerfully engulfing and mesmerizingly intimate, the album’s title alludes to one's constant rebirth through the creation of music and to the band’s hope to transcend the impending eventuality of death when all that remains is the music, and art becomes artifact. In a dim world, with death our only guarantee, The Angelus returns with their third full-length offering 'Why We Never Die'.
The Angelus’s third studio album is brimming with songs of the thunderously sublime and arrestingly heartfelt. For fans of SWANS, Wovenhand, Tinariwen, & Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Windhand, Anna von Hausswolff, Lungfish.
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