Devastates is framed by the beautiful and subtly disturbing artwork of McKenzie, with its front cover conflagration of mutant birds serving as the perfect visual analogue for the album's themes. The 180gLP format is lavishly packaged with a full colour liner notes insert and a screenprinted art poster, both printed on archival paper. CD comes in a custom paperboard mini-gatefold jacket with a printed CD dust sleeve.
1. The Changing Wind
2. Kiboho
3. Boats
4. The Power & The Wake
5. Chaos Hands
6. Invocation
7. In A Blanket of Leaves
8. The Wind Come Carry
Running time: 00:43:16
Devastates is framed by the beautiful and subtly disturbing artwork of McKenzie, with its front cover conflagration of mutant birds serving as the perfect visual analogue for the album's themes. The 180gLP format is lavishly packaged with a full colour liner notes insert and a screenprinted art poster, both printed on archival paper. CD comes in a custom paperboard mini-gatefold jacket with a printed CD dust sleeve.
"Bridges the radical and the traditional, the beautiful and the powerful, the obscure and the accessible, in ways never before imagined. This is deeply textured, earthy music, alive with mystic energies that are both timeless and ancient. Scintillating, mesmerising and original, it's a triumph, and a joy to listen to. Wherever Elfin Saddle go from here is anyone's guess, but it's bound to be absolutely fascinating." – Trebuchet
"To the folk aficionado, Devastates is essential listening... it shows great ambition and pushes the limits of what can be expected in the genre. At times, it is sonically spectacular." – The 405
"One of the best albums you never heard of this year [sic]." – SPIN
"A steam-engined song cycle of snowy, mystical, art-folk drones and singing... an elegant exercise in protest music – further adventures in what the band describes as the 'beautiful perpetual incomprehensible.'" – Globe and Mail
"Intense, passionate folk music shot through with a sense of urgency and, at times, menace... Elfin Saddle certainly have a lot to say for themselves and a unique, technically brilliant way of saying it." – Drowned In Sound
"It is the sound of our varied and disparate cultures being fed into a huge difference engine and programmed by some very talented musical arrangers. It is the sound of our collective demise as humankind fails to meet its responsibility to its host planet and despite the depressing inevitability of its political message... it’s all rather bloody lovely." – Alternative Matter
"["The Changing Wind"] begins with random sounds (plucked strings, repetitive metallic scrapes) that eventually combine to form a pattern. As suddenly as it becomes clear, new instruments fill in and change the rhythm; it does uncannily recall the wind changing direction, pulling and scraping at branches and leaves... A complex and sticky musical experience that lingers after the last notes have been played." – Bitch Magazine
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