We Suffer

Splendor

demon

control

Plantlife

Fleeting Joys - Patron Saint

Gensho

Farewell

GRAVE131: CLOSENESS - Personality Therapy 
In stores Feb 24th, 2017
Pre-order: graveface.bandcamp.com/album/personality-therapy

Todd Fink (born Todd Baechle) and wife Orenda Fink converged first on tour, then in love and now in music. CLOSENESS, the couple’s first group together, is the result of two incredibly talented musicians melding in life and in art. 
Both halves of this new project have work spanning a variety of venerated musical outfits. Todd is most notably the frontman of The Faint, while Orenda is best known as one-half of the slick Azure Ray, and has credits including Moby, Bright Eyes, Paul Kalkbrenner, Eric Bachmann, Delerium, Sparklehorse, and Isaac Brock.
Todd and Orenda had often talked about starting a band together after meeting and falling in love in 2002 (married in 2005) but had always been busy with other projects. 
In 2015, Orenda underwent an urgent heart procedure, and was on the operating table less than a month after a sobering diagnosis. What was supposed to be a three hour procedure ended up being twelve hours, and it shook the couple to the core. 
Being reminded that we have no guarantee in life for how long we’ll be around, they decided there was no time like now to finally start the band they had talked about for so long. They even started writing while Orenda was still recovering. 
In an amalgam of their previous work, CLOSENESS emerges with an electronic but shadowy southern gothic sound. Todd’s high-energy, cool and synthetic voice lifts and energizes Orenda’s mystical and warm-hearted aura.
Their debut work, which Todd recorded, produced and mixed in his home studio, is ripe with dreamlike scenarios, skirting the edge of otherworldliness. Pulsating rhythms boom and break around futuristic vocals from both. Together, they create a unified archetype that is moody, therapeutic and deeply inspired by the most basic questions about life, meaning, love and death.
Musically, the two are inspired by The Knife, Pink Floyd, The Zombies, Tr/st, Crystal Castles, John Carpenter, and Health. The couple also cites Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Alejandro Jodorowiski, G.I. Gurdjieff, Tibetan Book Of The Dead, i, and The Enneagram in their catalog of general influences.

CLOSENESS - End Of The Maze

Rumskib

Springtime

Final track from our 2nd LP Sleep Cycle

Lyrics:
Lessons from early days should've kept you satisfied. 
Why would you want to know more ? You're a long way from home 
So keep your questions to yourself, don't ask anywhere or anyone about what you have thought, it's what we were taught 

Sort your stuff and we'll be going 
Somewhere we'll try to stay sane 
I lost track of all my belongings 
Everything is losing it's shape 

And you know what's happening, 
they all have heard and talked about what you have done. 
So you have become no one 

Sort your stuff and we'll be going 
Somewhere we'll try to stay sane 
I lost track of all my belongings 
Everything is losing its shape

Sleep Cycle

Lessons

Winks & Kisses

Swimming Through Us

Graveface Records is an independent label with a focus on all things hand-made, hand-assembled & unique.  If you find yourself in the deep south, stop by our retail location at 5 w 40th st, Savannah, GA 31401.

CLOSENESS - End Of The Maze

Graveface Records

Related tracks