Philadelphia’s premier Southern Gothic outfit, 49 Burning Condors, ceremoniously unveiled their latest Witch Rock album, Seventh Hymnal, on September 9th, 2022.

Starting with the swampy twang in track 1, Bayou, the album Engineered and Produced by Matt Poirier at Miner Street Recordings, Philadelphia, PA and Mastered by Joe Lambert, NY, unravels with instant bewitching beguile.

The sermonic folk textures mixed with muddied gothic rock, complete with ominously quivering strings, is the ultimate siren call to the blackened times we have endured. Track 2, Little Death, a grief-strewn baroquely haunted ode to our frailty, opens up to track 3, Willow Tree, a gentler embodiment of 49 Burning Condors’ tensile compassion.

Track 4, Red Drum Skin, is the percussive masterpiece of the album. It is primed to tribally awaken any witness to the devilish bluesy gravitas before track 5, Noonday, moves into a more desert rock narratively led arena, and track 6, Chapel Hill, is a murder folk gem. The concluding title single is a gently sombre parting gift, which ethereally resounds through its artful chamber orchestral grace.

49 Burning Condors said:

“Seventh Hymnal was written during the pandemic; a time of abounding uncertainty, where death loomed around every corner, and chaos lingered in our world, homes, and veins. Our songs are dripping with stories of grief, bodies floating down the river, men drowning to a siren's song, and of the gods worshipped, who turned calamitous.

Seventh Hymnal is not only an outpouring of all the things we wanted to say but couldn't express in regular words to those we loved and even to ourselves, but a benediction and examination of a woman's role of power in the world of men.”

Amelia Vandergast, the Executive Editor at A&R Factory said:

“It isn’t often I’m left speechless; considering the very nature of Seventh Hymnal is to express what can never be accurately portrayed through words alone, the arrested daze that 49 Burning Condors left me in speaks volumes of their ability to run with an immensely powerful concept and take you along for the visceral ride until you’re subsequently soothed by the sonorous sonic vernacular.”