Elder spent a good chunk of time in the studio this year which not only resulted in a new record, but a surprise new EP as well! Elder is now streaming their massive 18-minute EP Liminality / Dream State Return, which they note was born from some older jams that never quite got fleshed out. Get Liminality / Dream State Return here on Bandcamp or pick yourselves up a vinyl copy right here.
"In winter of 2024, Elder reconvened in Berlin after a year mostly spent on creative sabbatical. We'd been on tour for many months each year since the pandemic, and brains and bodies were in need of rest and reset," wrote Elder of the process. "Before beginning to work on the next full-length in earnest, we decided it would be good to pick up a shelved project from years past as an excuse to get back in the saddle playing together.
"This work is mostly comprised of fragments written between the periods of Omens and Innate Passage, but which seemed to fit neither album. Meeting together in studio, we reworked the song and were surprised to see the session growing longer and longer as we jammed out into infinity. The result is a unique bit of Elder which has one foot in the past and one in the future.
"Liminality / Dream State Return explores the idea of the space in-between states of development; the lyrics were written mostly in a stream of consciousness while the song unfolded. For us, the project represents a picture of Elder in a transitory space."
