An artifact for our age. “Most nomads,” writes Bruce Chatwin in The Songlines, “claim to ‘own’ their migration path (in Arabic Il-Rāh, ‘The Way’), but in practice they only lay claim to seasonal grazing rights. Time and space are thus dissolved around each other: a month and a stretch of road are synonymous.” On Tides, the third LP from Belfast beasts Nomadic Rituals, time and space are unyoked from what H.G. Wells called “placid assumptions” about progress, humanity, and evolution. Instead, Nomadic Rituals follows alternative spacetime paths towards new—or lost—ways of experiencing and understanding life. Tides is an album with … Continue reading We Should Ever Be In Motion: Nomadic Rituals’ Tides