Today the Los Angeles based band El Ten Eleven dropped their album called Valley of Fire via Joyful Noise Recordings.
About the album:
There are some places where words can’t tread. There is no vocabulary for beauty that leaves us tongue-tied and speechless.
There isn’t a word for the places that pluck the breath out of our bodies. Kristian Dunn learned the deficits of language when trying to describe his travels to Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park. The only way to chronicle the journey was through music, making way for El Ten Eleven’s 13th album.
Valley of Fire is the spiritual sequel to the duo’s 2022 release of New Year’s Eve, a frenzied, discotheque fever dream. Compare the album covers, both designed by Ron Fleming (YYES), and the two stand as foils of one another: The watery abstraction of New Year’s Eve counterbalances the fiery distortions of Valley of Fire.
“The Valley of Fire was created by shifting dunes and erosion — we see it as a static image — a vertical moment in its history, but it is the result of constant change and the forces exerted upon the result,” Fleming said of the Valley of Fire artwork. “It’s all those forces coming together to create something larger, more complex, and continually influenced by things beyond our control.”
Valley of Fire is El Ten Eleven’s most thematically committed record, merging personal anecdotes with the larger ecosystem of the Valley of Fire. While the album was inspired by organic beauty, its seven songs are still rife with El Ten Eleven’s trademark technical flair. From the heavy tremolos of “Volsens” to the enduring presence of the SuperEgo pedal on “Days of Our Lives,” the duo use technology to mimic the complexity and gravity of the waking world.
Valley of Fire gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
El Ten Eleven – Valley of Fire [Streaming]
