Moorah release The Beast Called Ego tomorrow, 6 November, through Art Gates Records.
Six songs, and four of the titles name the same idea from different directions. Breitspurbahn was the broad gauge railway Hitler wanted across a conquered Europe, three metres between the rails, never built. The Vasa was the Swedish warship so overloaded with guns and carving that it sank in Stockholm harbour twenty minutes into its first voyage in 1628. Eternal Ahasver is the wandering Jew of medieval legend, cursed to keep going.
An album called The Beast Called Ego made of monuments to overreach is a tighter concept than most records manage, and it explains why the one song in Czech, Demon za krkem, closes it. The phrase means the demon at your neck.
Left Hand of Darkness opens, borrowing from Ursula K. Le Guin, whose novel is about a world where nobody is fixed in one form. Art Gates are releasing it on CD, and six songs is a short record for a band carrying this much reading behind it.