Burial Cake announces new album

Burial Cake, the new project of Blake Edward Conley, has announced details of their debut full-length release under the moniker.

Small Steps will be released via Somewherecold on June 19, and in lieu of a single, you can listen to a collage of it below. Formerly the driving force of the excellent droneroom, last year Conley decided to call time on the project. They now land as Burial Cake.

After a near-death encounter and hospitalisation last year, it followed the end of a long-term relationship. Now based in Seattle after a stint just down the road in Tacoma, for Conley Burial Cake is a new beginning. And all new beginnings require small steps.

On Small Steps, Conley is backburning, boiling down trademark long-form jams for more fragmented snapshots. It’s a diary through sound, inspired by one of the most turbulent periods of Conley’s life.

Small Steps captures that turbulence. In the words of Scott Bunn, “a soundtrack to a movie that you’re watching while sitting next to the director and the rest of the crew.” And continuing that theme, in the famous words of Jim Jarmusch, “Life has no plot, why should films or fiction?”, that’s exactly how Small Steps shakes out.

Stay tuned for more Burial Cake on Sun 13 in the coming months. For those yet to delve into the world of Blake Edward Conley, start here.

Small Steps is out June 19 via Somewhere. Pre-order via Bandcamp.