Earlier this year, Cascadian black metal duo Wolves in the Throne Room announced that they were breaking their three year hiatus to release an ambient EP entitled Celestite, which would be an exploration of the more ambient parts of their 2011 record Celestial Lineage.
Today, the band debuted a new track from the record entitled 'Celestite Mirror'. At fourteen minutes, the song dwarfs the band's previously short, two-minute synth breaks. Slowly growing in majesty, while preserving the classic WITTR 'cosmic ritual' vibe, what's most interesting about 'Celestite Mirror' is its lack of motifs evoking nature. It's nebulous, scintillating, and beautiful, but as it veers into a series of stochastic bleeps and bloops around the 6-minute mark, I can't help but feel like the woods of Cascadia - which characterized all of WITTR's music to date - are getting the short end of the stick.
In any case, 'Celestite Mirror' is grandiose and beautiful, echoing Brian Eno's bliss but with just enough misty mystery mixed in to an entrancing effect. Stream it at Pitchfork here.
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