Carmilla, or Millarca to those of you who have read the novella — wink wink — is a character who is somewhat synonymous with the idea of "lesbian vampire", and has been embraced by a portion of the LGBTQ+ community online (at least to my knowledge, which isn't all too vast). Lesbos is an island, where, most notably, the poet Sappho laid her head — bet you can't guess what she wrote about. Lesbos is also where the word lesbian derives, as to be a lesbian is to literally be of or from Lesbos. So, Carmilla of Lesbos, very fun, very chic.
Etymology aside (I'm horribly sorry but I had to find some excuse to insert this stuff, as a lover of not only LeFanu but also past centuries' erotic writing) — let's get to it: how is the record? How is and someday, through this sea, i know i'll return to the world?
Words/descriptions that come to mind to whilst listening: contemplative; riverrun; slow chocolate chemotaxis; the great expanse of the horizon is ending, you can go home now.
It's a wonderful drone, quite calming to be totally honest. Minimal, very nice; I especially like the brief spangs of white noise that appear here and there throughout.
All things end eventually though, even if you expect it to go on forever — and so the music ends and the gut feels small.
It should be noted that the cover art, which shows a woman receiving orange juice from somebody, is from, I presume, the artist's own comic marooned. Without context this somebody may not really be there, they may be a higher being, what have you, etcetera/et alia/buhbuhbuh.
Secondary to this review of the album: read the marooned comic that is linked in the description of the album as well as right here: https://acomicnamedmarooned.thecomicseries.com/
I am yet to read the whole thing but I believe that the comic will bring further insight into this and further Carmilla of Lesbos releases, such as #015 which also features a page of the series as its cover.
Good record. Damn fine record I say. I liked it a good bit.
Without proofreading an absurd number of times, I hereby click publish and hope that I don't see any glaring grammatical errors.