Lark - Blind

Lark - Blind
A 2024 Film by Charlie Bonallack and Kaz Raad.
Single release on 02.10.24 from the album 'Be Still'
All Songs Written, Recorded and Mixed by Karl Bielik at LBR Studios, London.
Mastered by Paul Galpin.
Album released 31.01.25.
Ava Bielik - Backing Vox and Heartbeat on She Breaks,
Paul Burke - Guitar on Be Still, Blind, Powders, She Breaks and The Underpass.
Rayna Ferner - Violin on The Ink House.
Robert Hall and Lorna Milburn - Backing Vox on The Ink House.
Emma Richardson - Bass on Decorate.
Joe Ryan - Drums on Blind, Powders and She Breaks.
Tarn Willers - Bass on Powders.
Goodbye Man - Courtesy of Care in the Community Recordings.
Front cover art - Ben Walker.
Back cover art - Donna Mclean.
Label art - James F Johnston.
Photography - Lydia Whitmore.
Art & Design - Ciaran O'Shea.
www.karlbielik.com
LARK007LP.
All rights Standard Lamp Records 2025.
Uncut - ‘The wonky unsettling world it creates is very much Bielik's own’
Mojo - 'A dark subcurrent of industrial noise runs under raspy vocals punctuated by driving basslines that fuel this idiosyncratic album'
Q - ‘Verbal darts over brutal guitar shards and cheap synthetic beats’
The Quietus - ‘That rare breed of band that creates and inhibits an environment entirely of their own making’
Louder than War - 'One of the albums of the year... one of the most exciting albums around'
Rough Trade - ‘Fantastic, sounds like a drunken, dense and dark take on a stooges riff mixed with the repetition of The Fall’
Loud and Quiet - ‘Jerky beats, repetition, strangely cryptic lyrics, wiry guitars and manic psycho-bluesy vocals’
Vive le Rock - 'Swathe upon swathe of FX-laden sonic attack, as Bielik tears out his tortured soul'
Time Out - ‘Another dose of uber-anxious lurching and lo-fi post punk’
Metro - 'The menace lurking just beneath the surface is as contemporary as it is compellingly groovy.'
Norman Records - 'Between the ramshackle party punk of The Cramps and the more eccentric skronk of Beefheart'
Gigslutz - 'An ode to the dysfunctional; brimming with guilty, gritty, passive aggressive tracks.'
Penny Black Music - 'Bielik's songs are gorgeous... funny? No. Worth the agony, most certainly, yes.'
Whisperin' & Hollerin' - ‘Lark carve a grimy, gritty groove... the atmosphere is vaguely chilling, the mood cracked’
Clash - ‘breaks boundaries and connects the dots… rich in invention and fresh ideas’
Artrocker - ‘Full of Magnetic Fields style charm’
Joyzine - ‘Explores the depths of the human condition’
Punk Online - 'It's what makes punk music what it is and Lark are just another dimension’
Music Emissions - ’Stunning in its range of ideas and raw poetic power’
Americana - ‘Rawness, urgency and a sense of claustrophobia by the truckload’
Foxy Digitalis - ‘The vocal tirade is what makes this whole thing’
Alternative Ulster - ‘A sonic masterpiece of instantly recognisable singularity’
Big Distraction - ’A Grimy dark rock 'n' roll beast of a record... ideas simply buzz out of the speakers’
Blaue-rosen - ‘a sonic space which is enveloped in a dark, static melancholy’