***“It’s hard not to feel the crackle of a pagan bonfire while listening to ‘Cedar Smoke,’ one of the standout tracks from White Storm Falls. The debut by the Minnesota ensemble BLOOD AND SUN, the album is steeped in a pastoral sorcery that draws together the more subdued side of Swans’ stentorian majesty and Death In June’s dark-folk thrum. With violin, cello, hammered dulcimer, and subtle, tribal percussion consuming the negative space around the acoustic guitar and cavernous lead vocals of LUKE TROMICZAK, ‘Cedar Smoke’ evokes the ghosts of eons past—and the omen of flickering shadows to come.”—AV Club. Recorded in Minnesota in Sunless Houses Studios, Mixed and Mastered at Absinthe Studios in Westminster Colorado by the legendary ROBERT FERBRACHE. Presented in a heavyweight textured and foilprinted gatefold, with a stapled-in art/lyric book protected by Vellum. Mastered at 45rpm, this 200-gram black vinyl includes CD version of the album, as well as an artbook.