Gossamer Blue, by Spirits of Leo

Gossamer Blue

by Spirits of Leo

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Diego 1st Song Music One of the best album that I listened in my life. A shoegaze masterpiece! Love the band!

Midnight Vega The artistry of this EP is astounding, and I feel this is the best EP thus far in 2022 in the realm of Shoegaze! Favorite track: Asylum.

	Solaris 00:00 / 03:31

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1.	Initiation 02:18	lyrics	buy track
Imagine light It cuts so deep, you can’t speak here Departed souls will have their fears Is this what happens after life? It all comes rushing back like fire So virtuous, so unaware In permanence we will dwell here There is nothing to have There is nothing to steal There is no mask, no great reveal Initiation rites The pain will subside I promise you light Initiation rites
2.	Visions 04:40	lyrics	buy track
I feel the fire of a burning sun And the voices echo down on me The sudden swell of a thousand waves Are plunging to the depths of me Can you tell a storm is coming Forming distantly Like memories that ceased to be Softly, like wind carries heat in air Our instincts guide us to the fire The smoke will lead me there I feel the fire of a burning sun And the voices echo down on me The sudden swell of a thousand waves Are plunging to the depths of me Can you hear the embers cracking Dancing in release My intuition calls on me Audrey, listen close again to me I will gladly go where you guide me Wherever that may be Like wind carries salt to sea And this is the start Illusory, alluring me Harrowing, the path can be But if you see the future in me Like I see in my visions of you I feel the fire of a burning sun And the voices echo down on me The sudden swell of a thousand waves Are plunging to the depths of me Can you tell a storm is coming Forming distantly I’ll go wherever you guide me
3.	Solaris 03:31	lyrics	buy track
I’m winding through tundras Never felt a synergy In the deep of these snows Sift core from ether Lest I forget what I’m made of Soon time will tell All the force, all the glow Harness this sun This is my time now Retake my Solaris I’m drifting through stardust Never had a better bloom In the presence of stars Tear flesh from ether Lest I forget what I’m made of Soon time will tell All the force, all the glow Harness this sun This is my time now Retake my Solaris
4.	Patience 04:32 video	lyrics	buy track
Pushing forward to a dream Never waking for reprieve Yearning for a chance to breathe Bodies aching endlessly We were meant for more than rest We are lifeless without lust Pushing forward to a dream Pushing forward endlessly Having patience now And learning from my haste From how I lost you When I lost my faith in me Pushing forward to a dream Never waking for reprieve Yearning for a chance to breathe Bodies aching endlessly We were meant for more than rest We are lifeless without lust Pushing forward to a dream Pushing forward endlessly Having patience now And treading my own way And how I spurned you There is no more atoning doubts No dreamless sleep where I’m without Pushing forward to a dream Never waking for reprieve Yearning for a chance to breathe Bodies aching endlessly I await, I await my fate at last
5.	Frailties 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Vicious cycles arise In the wake of decay Caught averting your sight To the violence before your eyes An intruder will rise Breaking your pride For a moment in time There was beauty in reach But the world that I dreamt Its walls have been breached All one moment in time Just one moment in time In the wreckage of pain A new order will rise Subverting your bliss Into an agent of fear and doubt Infiltrating your trust Breaking your pride Unseating your consciousness Forgoing all consequence The plot is in motion now Pledging your fealty now Swearing your constancy Down on your knees Letting the darkness win Vetting a stranger in For a moment in time There was beauty in reach But the world that I dreamt Its walls have been breached All one moment in time Just one moment in time There’s no future defined
6.	Asylum 05:45	lyrics	buy track
Something in the darkness dwells Like voices from your insides squall Buried deep in shame, and regression God’s rejected ones Shade beneath my cast of faith Tremored ground attest my strength I know the plan for God’s rejected ones Ash in hearth, I seek your shelter Storming, rushing, bounding, assailing me Entering my spine and crawling out my palms The spirit is now ascending me Commanding motion Don’t fight, infernal eyes don't lie Faith is learned or not realized Something in the darkness dwells Like poison on your lips, the sickness swells The devil never comes if you don’t believe him The curse relinquished Scepter come, incarcerate Where I'm captive, I am safe I know the plan for God’s rejected ones Ash in hearth, I seek your shelter Storming, rushing, bounding, assailing me Entering my spine and crawling out my palms The spirit is now ascending me Urging devotion Don’t fight, infernal eyes don't lie And nothing ever comes if you won’t believe it
7.	Gossamer 05:28	lyrics	buy track
Swaying on the edge of the Earth The spider’s spun her web Across panes of sullen glass An ashen face torments this place Where the body’s laid to rest Where the angels strike us down Birthing a new life So, so slow So fleeting Still, in the pace of the wake This life, a series of deaths and tragic ends Her sallow face torments the place Where her warmth once left a trace Then the angels took her hand Returning her to Earth So, so slow So fleeting, now Some come and go too swiftly For all the writing hands And games we trade amidst the plains here For all the pause and play within the maze We trade at will here In memoriam, she reaps fields strewn in gossamer In immortal halls her pain will cease to be Swaying on the edge of the Earth The spider’s spun her web In corners unconcerned An ashen face torments the place Where the body’s laid to rest Where the angels guide her down And give her peace again And finally full breaths
8.	Exire 02:08	lyrics	buy track
I found your heart Buried beneath the pines Preserved in clay Soft, beating still From clouds above Heavy with rain Encasing me in forest floors Breaths expire

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"Gossamer Blue" is the new full-length album from Brooklyn's Spirits of Leo. Somber, spectral and energetic, "Gossamer Blue" demonstrates the band's unique blend of dreamy shoegaze and ethereal post-punk set against a backdrop of wintery atmospherics.

With chorused textures and pounding rhythms, the eight titles that make up “Gossamer Blue” meld intricate guitar lines with ethereal vocal chants to echo the moods of early 4AD and Fiction Records-era goth. Anthemic and concise, the album explodes with spacious instrumental hooks and choruses throughout its 32-minute brevity.

“Gossamer Blue” marks new sonic territory for the band. Stylistically, the songs here have evolved into darker, gloomier provisions since the release of double-LP "Equinox" in 2018. While grief, anxiety and loss serve as mainstays in Phillips’ writing, the motifs present in “Gossamer Blue” range from introspection and determination to bleak explorations of death, life, and rebirth.

The album was written, recorded and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at his Brooklyn-based project studio Lux Perpetua NYC. It was mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering. The album features drums by Alex Lichtenstein and guest vocalist Gioia Sabatinelli.

"Gossamer Blue" will be releasing on cassette, vinyl and digital via À La Carte Records.

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released August 12, 2022

All songs written, produced and performed by Spirits of Leo
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitars, bass and synthesizer
Gioia Sabatinelli - guest vocals on Exire and Solaris
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Spirits of Leo Live is:
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitar
Anthony Taboada - backing vocals, guitar
Nick DiPillo - bass guitar
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Album art direction and layout by Coward's Way
Album art photography by Maria Nemm
Band photography by Nika de Carlo
Logo design by Jared Cortland

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Spirits of Leo is a dreamy post-punk band based in New York City.

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