The Shining Tongues
The Prayer - EP
From an interview with The Other Side in 2021:
"...the idea of prayer is interesting to me - both as a meditative state and as a kind of remote communication... There are little ideas running through the EP – the dual ideas of impermanence and infinity on ‘On My Way Down’. ‘Belly Of The Town’ is a kind of yearning for closer human contact. The Prayer itself is our attempt to recreate a kind of manic and psychotic religious fervour. A shout out here should go to the supremely talented Ben Mclees for his amazing string arrangement.
Three of the songs were written in 2020 but ‘Shy Contortionist’ actually dates back to a band I used to play in many years ago with Maria Vellanz (currently of Bent Husbands) called Leisur Hive. I found an old tape of it in a box and it just seemed to fit in with the other songs. So Maria and I re-recorded it and it blended in perfectly with what The Shining Tongues are doing now. The EP definitely has a narrative running through it – more like one side of an album ..."