Witch house! Feral cats! Spooky windswept cathedrals! San Francisco’s Water Borders are the aural equivalent of decadent writer Octave Mirbeau’s The Torture Garden, with, like, sly lookin’ little LOLcats popping up every few seconds to ask “I Can Has Depravity?” It’s like Throbbing Gristle spinoff Coil (whom the duo behind Water Borders are allegedly big fans of) for the Information Age. The men behind Water Borders, Amitai Heller and Loric Sih, have released a cassette on Skrot Up, a CD-R through Disaro (home to witchy luminaries like Salem and oOoOoo), and a 12-inch single through much-beloved blog 20jazzfunkgreats’ label, Hungry for Power. (That single Akko/Rome was described in a press release as a song about “feral cats roaming ruins.”)
Now Water Borders are announcing the imminent release of their first full-length, Harbored Mantras, on October 11 through the NYC-/London-based label Tri Angle Records, home to releases from artists like Balam Acab, How To Dress Well, and Holy Other. Mantras will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital download. Expect heavy dance music with Gamelan rhythms, Scott Walker dramatics, and an appreciation for Glasser (who designed the album artwork and appears on Water Harbors’ cat track, “Rome.”) Ooooooeeee! As Nelly once said, “It’s getting GOTH in here/ So take off all your clothes.” No parking on the dancefloor, etc.
Harbored Mantras tracklisting:
01. Tread on Them
02. What Wiwant
03. waldenpond.com
04. Bad Ethos
05. Even in the Dark
06. Feasting on Mongeese
07. Seed Bank
08. Miners
09. Antechamber
• Water Borders: http://soundcloud.com/water-borders
• Tri Angle: http://tri-anglerecords.com
