Eleventh He Reaches London – Hollow Be My Name added | Postrocking.com – Home of Post Rock music

Label: Good Cop Bad Cop
Country: AU

Tracklist:

01. Hollow Be My Name
02. Britain and Structure
03. I Am the Bearer, I Stand in Need
04. Son, You’re Almost an Orphan
05. Oh, Brother
06. Gaze to the North
07. Toorali
08. Hill of Grace
09. Girt by Piss
10. Death Is My Holiday
11. For the Commonwealth and the Queen

Eleventh He Reaches London sat beneath a tree sometime in 2007. They thought of music and they thought of life; they thought of the perfect way to balance both, but soon realised that one was far easier to love than the other. They wrote “Hollow Be My Name” soon after, an endless representation of positive and negative emotions, of audible notes that have lost their way since 1927, when Henry Thomas first sat on the bank of a river and composed the “Fishing Blues”. They recorded in 2007 and 2008, breaking the record they had previously set for hours spent in Bergerk! Studios by a band on a single project. The result is an hour long record; an hour to contribute to the ever growing stack of musically expressed observations of time spent on earth – not a throwback to a bygone era of sound, but an etching of one’s own passage through this miserable wasteland.

The recordings were buried and vines allowed to grow across them, as Seldon Hunt created a beautiful cardboard hermitage for the music, as well as a 24 panel poster and lyric sheet (see below). The hour spends itself dividing all one is into God, Government and Father, depicting our protagonist’s resentment in all three for their perceived neglect. It’s not about being Australian, it’s about being human – for they love the world they live in, but hate the country they’ve left. Presented in sound, this is “Hollow Be My Name” by Eleventh He Reaches London.