Puma Blue - Holy Waters (Indies Exclusive – Transparent Blue Vinyl)

CAT : 5400863122485
Format : Transparent Blue Vinyl

Death nestles like a sweet creature at the heart of Holy Waters, the highly anticipated follow-up from Puma Blue, the project of London based singer-songwriter Jacob Allen, to 2021’s In Praise of Shadows, releasing Friday, September 1 on Blue Flowers.
 
It’s less a morbid study in mortality, more a chronicle of the graciousness within each repeated cycle of life, death and rebirth, arriving eventually at a gentle affirmation to Allen, to the listener, at the album’s close, to keep going, “don’t let the dark take you whole.” It’s the hope-tinged bleakness that gets you.
 
While Holy Waters might be Allen’s darkest work to date – even when compared to the moreish sadness flooding his breakthrough EPs Swum Baby (2017) and Blood Loss (2018) – it seems to find Puma Blue in a better place than ever. It’s as if death being the centrifuge to the album has made the beautiful moments that remain all the more beautiful; after all the sorrow and pain has passed, Holy Waters basks in them.

Tracklist :

1. Falling Down
2. Pretty
3. O, The Blood!
4. Hounds
5. Too Much, Too Much
6. Epitaph
7. Gates (Wait For Me)
8. Dream Of You
9. Holy Waters
10. Mirage
11. Light Is Gone