HMLTD – The Worm (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:28 minutes | 477 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lucky Number
Created over the course of two years with a cast of 47 musicians – including a gospel choir and a 16-piece string orchestra – The Worm is less a concept album than a fully-fledged musical universe, transcending genre and medium. Set in a disorienting anachronistic version of Medieval England – as steeped in dystopian sci-fi fantasy as it is folklore and Old English mythology – it’s part political polemic, part deeply moving psychological journey, and finds frontman Henry Spychalski drawing on his own psycho-spiritual struggles to construct a modern parable about the impotence felt by individuals stuck inside gargantuan, labyrinthine systems of power that they are powerless to change.
Tracklist:
1-1. HMLTD – Worm’s Dream (01:13)
1-2. HMLTD – Wyrmlands (03:51)
1-3. HMLTD – The End Is Now (03:58)
1-4. HMLTD – Days (04:29)
1-5. HMLTD – Saddest Worm Ever (05:30)
1-6. HMLTD – Liverpool Street (04:55)
1-7. HMLTD – The Worm (05:17)
1-8. HMLTD – Past Life (Sinnerman’s Song) (07:17)
1-9. HMLTD – Lay Me Down (04:55)