After a decade of silence, Lux Interna returns with New Wilderness Gospel. More than just a collection of songs, the album is the centerpiece of a larger, immersive world woven from sound, text, and image.
A fever-dream of haunted Americana, apocalyptic mysticism, and cinematic folk noir, New Wilderness Gospel unfolds like a sonic myth—a dark hymn for the Anthropocene, a transmission from the wilderness at the edge of the known world.
New Wilderness Gospel evokes a fragmented narrative set against the desolate highways, shadowy Appalachian Mountains, and bone bleached deserts of an America at once raw and mythic. The songs hum with the crackle of unseen voices and the weight of the past bleeding into the present. Prophetic whispers travel through power lines; the silence of the desert swarms with spirits; the deep forest night yields to the presence of an even older darkness.
Written during a restless period of road trips in a time of unrelenting storms, wildfires, and a landscape in flux, the album channels the uncanny blending of inner and outer worlds that occurs in both moments of crisis and contemplation. Guiding listeners on a journey through liminal spaces—a ghost-lit passage through the dark night of the soul—it unveils a secret conspiracy between shelter and storm.
Sonically, New Wilderness Gospel presents a spectral tapestry—woven from the deep twang of desert blues, the ghostly echoes of Appalachian folk and gospel, the eerie shimmer of psychedelia and post-punk, and the raw intensity of American Gothic balladry. Beneath it all, warped traces of 1960s girl pop and 1980s new wave flicker like distant radio signals, barely breaking through the static. It’s a sound both timeworn and time-lost—haunted by memory, but restless, always reaching forward.
At its core, New Wilderness Gospel asks: What happens when the song of the world begins to slip into static? When the maps fail, and the familiar trails vanish? What emerges in the wilderness beyond the horizons of empire?
Tracklist:
01. Dark Fire/Revelator
02. Over The Timberlines
03. Brittle
04. Like Wolves
05. Into Night
06. No Arrow
07. Old Blood Blues
08. Her Wilderness
09. Selva Oscura
CD2 (only artbook):
01. Dogs & Wolves
02. The Messenger
03. Jacob, Body Seer
04. Enoch’s Dream
05. The Stormwatcher’s Tale
06. Out of this World Alive
07. A Trap for Time
08. Radio, Revelator
09. The Moses Code
10. A Strange Meeting
2CD hardcover book (28x28cm, 72 pages), novela, lyrics, extended photos, plus bonus CD. (500 copies available)
