Blue Vow’s new album, Death of a Big Black Dog, is a testament to metamorphosis

“The serpent shows the way to hidden things.” - C.G. Jung

The latest album from Cape Town’s Blue Vow is a testament to metamorphosis - a liminal journey bridging realms of shadow and light, where the old self breathes its final elegy before bowing to the emergence of a new voice.

Titled Death of a Big Black Dog, the album sees Chelsea Ann Peter follow up her 2022 debut album Sunfall - both albums moving through self-reflexive, existential doors, and sinking fully into the dark and the light, finding their pulse on the edge where the two forces meet.

Drawing influence that spans from slow-burning ambience to more violent, noise-driven entities, and with Blue Vow now morphing into a full band, comprising Joy Markus, Damon Miles, Cam Lofstrand, and Stephan Erasmus, Peter plays with sound to exorcise her dissection of and attempt to comprehend inner and outer worlds.

Death of a Big Black Dog exists in a plane between freedom and fear while navigating the labyrinth through self-awareness and reflection. Terrified yet resolute, it beckons toward the precipice of individuation - a leap of faith into the unknown.

Through the prism of magic realism, Blue Vow’s new album is a chapter of a story braided with dreams, waking reality and mythos. It's a journey of profound introspection and processing through musicality. It is the turning of the Wheel.