Ceremony’s fifth studio album, The L-Shaped Man, uses singer Ross
Farrar’s recent breakup as a platform to explore loneliness and
emotional weariness, but it is by no means a purely sad album. Rather
than look inward, Farrar uses his experience to write about what it
means to go through something heavy and come out the other side a
different person. In order to tell Farrar’s story, Ceremony have almost
completely stripped back the propulsive hardcore of their previous
records, turning every angry outburst into simmering despair.
Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man (2015)
Ceremony’s fifth studio album, The L-Shaped Man, uses singer Ross
Farrar’s recent breakup as a platform to explore loneliness and
emotional weariness, but it is by no means a purely sad album. Rather
than look inward, Farrar uses his experience to write about what it
means to go through something heavy and come out the other side a
different person. In order to tell Farrar’s story, Ceremony have almost
completely stripped back the propulsive hardcore of their previous
records, turning every angry outburst into simmering despair.
