Split Ep featuring two dark, doom-laden folk/psych artists, Crow Tongue and Language Of Light. I picked this up initially for the Crow Tongue side as I loved the previous Crow Tongue discs that came out on Hand/Eye, but the Language Of Light song turned out to be pretty great, leading me to start checking out more from the band. They're up first on the record with a song called "The Tower", a gorgeous, shadowy waft of gothic drone-folk, possessed by minimal, barely-there percussion and violin, the recording hushed and bathed in dust, with delicate, breathy female vocals and male singing tying together into an eerie ghost-chant. The female voice behind Language Of Light comes from Rebecca Loftiss, who it turns out is a sometime collaborator with the dark-drone-noise family collective Ctephin that I've been getting into recently. A pretty amazing track that has me currently searching out more of their eerie cemetery psych.

On the flipside, Crow Tongue offers up another weird tribal drone-and-percussion trance called "Wind Chant", which follows in the same creep-filled, ghoulish bluegrass-dirge as their full length. Plunked banjo strings crawl over a primitive motorik beat, while the gruff, dramatic chanting of front man Timothy Renner (who psych-folk fans might also know from his other group, the dark Xian folk ensemble Stone Breath) drifts overhead, the drums taking on a propulsive, tribal feel as they tunnel ever deeper into shadow. Feels like a more upbeat, propulsive Dead Raven Choir gone krautrock, and fans of any of this dark, gothic outsider doom-folk stuff should check this out.

Comes in a sleeve illustrated with appropriately creepy artwork and includes a vinyl Crow Tongue sticker, limited to 300 copies on marble gray vinyl.