Thank you for linking to that! Quite apart from mentions of Orlam, there's a section from about 43.15 to 51.15 when John discusses recording with Polly, especially Dance Hall.

Did you notice this new photo on Spotify that was recently added to YouTube as well? Will it be the visual identity adopted for the new album? It's giving me White chalk-vibes.

Oh, yes i did notice that photo. That may be indeed this album's outfit, we'll see.



These two months have been really quiet. Let's hope new info will be leaked soon.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B5GS6H_qNwI

Deo Gratias.

The new e-mail ends in this way:

There's a list of songs in the video, i'm very excited for the announcement !

So here's the connection with Orlam... It looks like ALL of the lyrics to the songs are actually lifted from the poems!

Is that Colin Morgan?

Could very well be...

perhaps we'll see a music video featuring him?

It seems he was present in the recording studio so perhaps a spoken word feature a la Linton Kwesi Johnson on "The Ministry of Defence"? Unless he sings, of course, I have no idea tbh. I think you can see him (or some other guy) recording his voice/vocals in one shot.

BTW the thing that looks like a styrofoam/mannequin head is actually a microphone designed for binaural recording.

The looped music in the video reminds me a little bit of Low (RIP Mimi), love the slowcore vibe. I've read some rumours the album is scheduled for a September release but I hope we'll get the first single soon.

Binaural recording is so cool! I have one of those mannequin heads for that purpose myself. I can’t spot it in the video. Does it look like it was being used in the session?

None of the music in that video is looped that I can hear.

i've already seen that "goofy" looking mannequin head between Colin and Polly before:
looks like a Neumann KU100, an extremely sensitive (and expensive) binaural microphone. expect great whispers, since it is used mostly by ASMR creators.

for reference: https://www.thomann.de/it/neumann_ku100.htm