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Transit Yellow · Second album

The White Ships

A ten-part traversal into the cyclopean silence just beyond the fringe of human perception. The definitive second album from Transit Yellow functions as a series of auditory navigation charts for the adrift, documenting the terrifying boundaries between our reality and a primordial abyss. The voyage is long, the stars do not care, and the ships are already waiting.

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Tracklist & sources

Ten tracks, most of them drawn from the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft. Here is the running order, with the story or figure behind each song.

1
Polaris
After "Polaris" by H. P. Lovecraft. The Pole Star keeps its cold watch while the dreamer loses the border between waking and sleep.
5:09
2
The Wind Is Awake
The flying polyps of "The Shadow Out of Time" by H. P. Lovecraft. The old wind-things stir in the vaults below.
8:26
3
Mountains Of Madness
After "At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft. An Antarctic expedition drills into the ice and wakes a dead Elder city.
5:29
4
Spheres Align
An original Transit Yellow composition.
4:08
5
Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, from the Lovecraft mythos.
3:38
6
Void-Drifter
An original Transit Yellow composition.
3:44
7
The White Ships
The title track, after "The White Ship" by H. P. Lovecraft. A lighthouse keeper follows a white ship into the lands of dream.
3:29
8
Serpent Ritual
Yig, the serpent father of the old mythos, and the elder reptile-folk who ruled the earth before mankind.
3:38
9
Silent Wings
The night-gaunts of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" by H. P. Lovecraft, bearing the dreamer over the peaks on faceless wings.
7:29
10
The Wind Is Awake, Pt. 2 (Instrumental)
An instrumental reprise that bookends the record, the wind-things returning to rest.
7:55

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