Jennifer Castle Angels Of Death

On Jennifer Castle's new album Angels of Death, her third fulllength
record under her given name (previous releases were
credited to Castlemusic), the Ontario songwriter summons a
kindred classical vision of the Muses as domestic familiars
intimately in league with death. A sublime meditation on mortality
and memory, ghosts and grief, Angels of Death casts a series of
spells against forgetting and finality, in the form of mysticminimalist
country-soul torch songs about writing, time travel,
and spectral visitations. Castle wrote and recorded this
breathtaking follow-up to the acclaimed Pink City (2014) in a 19th
century church near the shores of Lake Erie, where her family
also lived and experienced a constellation of losses that inhabit
these bruised musings. "The fictional concept of death rears its
head in so many of my songs, always on the periphery, or as a
side note, or a reminder, a punchline or the bottom line, always
sniffing around like a death dog. For once I wanted to try to put it
in my center vision. In order to talk about death, I armed myself
with the only antidote I know: writing. Is this a record about
death or a record about writing? Hard to tell in the end. I began
to think of poetry as time travel. I tried to write messages to the
future." - Jennifer Castle