Insect Ark's Marrow Hymns released today via Profound Lore

New York/Portland instrumental duo, INSECT ARK have today released their new album, Marrow Hymns via Profound Lore. The Portland/NYC pair seamlessly fuse elements of horror-film soundtracks, psychedelic doom, and atmospheric noise into something otherworldly. They'll be taking their instrumental intensity on the road as they hit Europe; the band will perform at Roadburn Festival as well as take in select dates with Gnod. Full dates below.

Marrow Hymns is streaming via Noisey alongside an in-depth interview, and is available to purchase physically or stream/buy via all digital outlets.

Marrow Hymns is INSECT ARK's first release written and recorded as a duo; it is the follow up to 2015's critically acclaimed album, Portal/Well. INSECT ARK’s intensely visual music weaves interludes of fragile beauty with crushing passages of swirling doom, wordlessly painting an ominous landscape.

Residing on opposite coasts, the two halves of the INSECT ARK whole - comprised of Schechter (bass, lap steel guitar, synthesizers) and Ashley Spungin (drums, synthesisers) - converged to record the album with engineer Ethan Donaldson at Mozart St Studios in Brooklyn, NY, over the course of eighteen months.

Overdubs and further writing/arrangements were done after Spungin’s return to Portland in the isolation of Schechter’s home studio. The sense of distance and vast emptiness remained intact in the songs, built out over many long nights. Marrow Hymns’ song themes of displacement, loss, and isolation are personal journals of that time period, as both members found themselves simultaneously experiencing existential crises. However, the album also tells a story of strength and determination, made from the marrow of these two women, a song for all things that struggle to survive.

< Marrow Hymns track list

1. Thelema

2. Arp 9

3. In The Nest

4. Skin Walker

5. Slow Ray

6. Sea Harps

7. Tarnish

8. Windless

9. Daath

INSECT ARK will play the following shows:

• 5 April- Brooklyn, NY - (Record Release show) @ Elsewhere w/ Martin Rev/Wolf Eyes/ Mystic Ruler & Bentley Anderson
• 19 April - Tilburg - NL- Roadburn Festival
• 28 April - Västerås, SE - Nya Perspektiv
• 05 May - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje Festival w/ Gnod
• 06 May - Brussels, BE - Magazin 4 w/ Gnod
• 08 May - Lille, FR - La Malterie w/ Gnod
• 10 May - Utrecht, NL - BD’s w/ Gnod
• 11 May - Diskmuide, BE - 4AD w/ Gnod
• 12 May - Paris, FR - Espace B w/ Gnod
• 16 May - Prague, CZ - 007
• 18 May - Bratislava, SK - Fuga
• 20 May- Leipzig, DE - Akko
• 23 May - Berlin, DE - Schokoladen