Lover, the Lord Has Left Us...

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Lover, The Lord Has Left Us...

Studio album by The Sound of Animals Fighting
Released	May 30, 2006
Recorded	2005
Genre	Experimental Rock
Length	54:25
Label	Equal Vision Records
Producer(s)	Rich Balling
Tiger and the Duke (2005)	Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... (2006)

Lover, the Lord has Left Us... is the second album by the progressive rock band The Sound of Animals Fighting. The album was released on May 30, 2006 through Equal Vision Records but will still use Rich Balling's Stars & Satellites imprint. [1]

The album contains songs with considerably different tempos than the songs on the band's last album. "Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" utilizes kitchen sounds and a German opera singer.[2] "Un'aria" and "Un'aria Ancora" are acapella tracks. On a recent Podcast "The Nightingale" aka Richard Balling mentioned that the names of the songs on the album all contain a similar element.

[edit] Track listing

"Intro" – 0:40
"Un'aria" – 1:05 (Italian for "An Air")
"Skullflower" – 4:13
"My Horse Must Lose" – 4:21
"Chiriacho Summit" – 1:30
"Horses in the Sky" – 5:21
"Stockhausen, es ist Ihr Gehirn, das ich suche" – 8:03 (German for "Stockhausen, It is your brain that I seek")
"Prayers on Fire" – 3:29
"The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By the Sea" – 1:41
"This Heat" – 10:35
"Un'aria Ancora" – 0:39 (Italian for "A Still Air")
"St. Broadrick is in Antarctica" – 3:00
"The Heretic" – 5:01
"There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us" – 6:34

[edit] Personnel

Position	Name	Animal
Producer, Vocals	Rich Balling (RX Bandits)	Nightingale
Guitar, Vocals	Matt Embree (RX Bandits)	Walrus
Drums, Programming	Chris Tsagakis (RX Bandits)	Lynx
Live Guitar	Steve Choi (RX Bandits)	Koala
Live Bass	Joe Troy (RX Bandits)
Recording, Mixing	Ryan Baker	Hyena
Vocals	Anthony Green (Circa Survive)	Skunk
Album Artwork	Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))))	Giraffe
Vocals	Craig Owens (Chiodos)	Ram
Vocals	Keith Goodwin (Days Away)	Penguin
Vocals	Matthew Kelly (The Autumns)	Wolf?

[edit] Additional Notes

Musical Styling

Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... is considerably different from Tiger and the Duke in many aspects. The music centers on electronic instruments such as synthesizers, drum machines, and computer-based music programs, rather guitars or drums. Tiger and the Duke has a more band oriented sound, whereas Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... has a more collaborative feel. There also exists great variation between different tracks. For example, "Prayers on Fire" has a considerably ethnic feel, due to Sanskrit vocalizations and samplings of a sitar. In contrast, "Horses in the Sky" is laden with heavy, incomprehensible drum n' bass grooves, though the chorus is much more organized and coherent. "The Heretic" is a soft ballad with rich, flowing string arrangements and lyrics associated with the burning of a heretic; the lyrics allude to this theme of religious punishment: "My body is a witch, my flesh is heretic, I am burning it." Other lyrics in the song continue this idea.

"The Heretic" includes lyrics that relate to a song discussing similar themes on Tiger and the Duke called "Act II: All is Ash or the Light Shining Through It." Both songs include the phrases, "My body is a witch, my flesh is heretic, I am burning it."

Rich Balling's father sings on "There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us".

On April 11, 2006, the band released "Skullflower" on their purevolume account. The song features a woman singing in sanskrit.

The album's pre-orders are being shipped with limited edition t-shirts, one available through interpunk and smartpunk, and another through merchnow. The designs are by artist Colin Strandberg.