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Ainotamenishis's brand of controlled panic is sure to spike the tongues of all those who purport to talk about the rock. It is primal, punk, eerie, harsh, and utterly essential.

The album begins with three short pieces, sonic examples of texture meeting metal--like a djinn trapped in molten gold, attempting to burst free from his cage but only managing to express rage via infinie temporary sculptures ranging from the nightmares of the Muetter Museum to futuristic expressions of nature not yet captured by a conscious eye. The final track is 28 minutes of pure glory that will surely become one of noise rock's classics. Massively blown-out and beautifully recorded, "Jederfursich" lays down twin mirrors side by side as a model of infinity is allowed to morph through sounds that recall the energy of existence and the sand of time itself.

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Shibboleth
Co Anima
R,ckfragen
Noorganon
Manotgog
Urorganon
Ends of Er

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Aufgehoben "Messidor"

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Birds of Maya did what countless garage rock geeks try and fail at: dust off 1968 and bring it back to life without making it look like museum piece. Bringing on the best of 60s power trios like Hendrix and Cream, a whiff of Blue Cheer's bongwater, Black Sabbath's bass heavy paranoia, and Stooges bum-out, they were sloppy in all the right places. The jamming never got tired and held everyone's raptattention. -phawker.com

Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and legendary experimentalist Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts (think Harold Budd), through which guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse cuts, whittles and lays to waste. It's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian-- and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, I gotta mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album.

So, is there a blues angle to it? Yeah, but you've got to bury yourself in it or dig your way in. Come out stinking if you want.

"It's like the soundtrack to Rainbow Bridge-- if it were in the Caribbean!" --Tobjoern Axelrod, Bus Rider

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Blues Control
Boiled Peanuts
Migration
Double Chin
The Blue Sheep
Frankie's Problem
Hummum
No Sweat

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Exterminating Angel's single 30-minute track uses voice, guitar, samplers, and ARP synthesizer. You've heard of the unmade science fiction epic whose would-be director proposed using different big-name progressive bands to perform a soundtrack for specific planets used in the script; here then are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star and Taco Bell from the 1970s filled with cement Mayan temples and pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. Every so often a bell goes off to break the spell and presents convincing evidence of this record's special journey.

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Exterminating Angel

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Exterminating Angel's single 30-minute track (split into two parts on the LP version) uses voice, guitar, samplers, and ARP synthesizer. You've heard of the unmade science fiction epic whose would-be director proposed using different big-name progressive bands to perform a soundtrack for specific planets used in the script; here then are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star and Taco Bell from the 1970s filled with cement Mayan temples and pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. Every so often a bell goes off to break the spell and presents convincing evidence of this record's special journey.

After the album's subtle opener takes you to the noisy scraped loops and menacing guitar of "Violent Stupid Friend" featuring The Baseball Astrologer with a "right on" rant, you are taken to the screaming backwards ecstasy of "Loop 03." The album continues with heavy, guitar-based psychedelic jams ("Temple of the Jaguar") that overload the senses and a spacey improvisational piece ("Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years") that both centers the album and folds time, while allowing the rest to flow from a bizarre pop song ("Bubble Wrap") to the title track, which is the sonic equivalent of a cloud taking a day to pass through your world.

• The first studio follow-up to the successful Ewige Blumenkraft
• Finally! A CD where every song doesn't sound the same
  
• The NWW list is for sheep and unadventurous pussies

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  Into the Mist
  Violent Stupid Friend
  Loop 03
  The Temple of the Jaguar
  Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years
  Clear Path to the Future
  Latency
  Bubble Wrap
  Blue Cloud

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  Davis-Redford Triad "Blue Cloud" (Holy Mountain)

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Code Orange is a live collage from the Davis Redford Triad's Spring 2002 tour. The band played a variety of material from both of their Holy Mountain albums plus rocked-out electric versions of material from Mr. Lobdell's sublime solo album, Automatic Writing by the Moon. In addition, there are three new songs, "Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years," "Loop 03," and the title track of their upcoming studio album Blue Cloud.

• Limited to 500 copies
  
• Three new songs, plus live bakes of selected hair pies

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  Solar Aquarius
  Apocalypse Greeting Card
  Lids of Pot
  Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years
  Uranian Wind
  Loop 03
  All Mystics are Numbered
  Blue Cloud

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Ewige Blumenkraft's six tracks, especially the epic, 18-minute alpha state of "Plum Village," make up an exciting, new psychedelic chapter in the little known tradition of Carnatic rock. Other entries might include Ustad Bismallah Khan, Clark-Hutchinson Band, Sun City Girls and U. Shirivas, among others. Somewhere in a Las Vegas hotel penthouse, behind the security of dependable guards, deep beneath the quick of a reclusive billionaire's fingernails, this record has been described as "indispensable." It is time to admit your plane can't fly. How about your carpet?

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Echoplex Orchestral Movement Part 1
Apocalypse Greeting Card
Plum Village
Rabbit Love Call
Ewige Blumenkraft
Echoplex Orchestral Movement Part 4

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• The original sequence restored, with a superior mix to boot
  
• East Coast tour to coincide
  
• Guitarist for the Faust renaissance

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  Solar Aquarius
  Mysteries of Cydonia
  Solar Aquarius (Slight Return)
  Hymn of the Virgin Sun Queen
  Smoke Signals in the Rain
  The Mystical Path of the Number Eighty Six
  Tambora ConcrEete

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While most groups form to play together with recording an eventual if somewhat unnecessary goal, Eden Express was formed to record this album first and to become a band second. That they so wildly succeed is a testament to the magic used and manipulated here. The witchy beauty of Eden Express recalls Pan y Regalis, Charlie and Esdor, and early tropicalia albums. Pour yourself and a friend some cocktails, sit by the pool, and try to become lucid as your bare, tanned forearms grow beyond 17 feet long.

Nelson's enthusiastic mania is not just in the realm of Keith Moon-ness but as a multi-instrumentalist who channels Dennis Wilson, Neil Michael Haggerty, and post-Vision Creation Newsun Boredoms, and combine it all and play it off like it was mixed by Tod Dockstader. No one is ever going to think you should listen to Knew Abloom on nitrous because it already sounds like it's on nitrous. Simply put, Hexlove is unlike anything and sounds exactly like right now should.

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Brushed with Cabin
Holds Her, Sees Crane
Smack of Dawn (Mourning Slaps Son Silly)
Blue is Blood
Patient as Sugar
Moun Kids Zum
Pepper Hurts
Grizzly Bear with Me
Sometimes We Always Don't Know
Excepting Eternity in the Relationship
Excepting Eternity in the Stretch

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Metempsychotic Melodies continues to document Higgs' rise as a solo performer.

Raw picked banjo drones dominate Metempsychic Melodies as the instrumental "Universal Salutation" fades into the waking dream soliloquy of observation "Love Abides." "Leontocephaline Rhapsody" is a long, waltzy drone with enough spooky atmosphere for one to think that it could have been recorded at Sunshine studios as there is a heavy Vogel vibe to the whole thing. Rumor has it engineer Tim Green told Higgs that he had to fade the track otherwise they were going to be arrested. Vocals return for the closing track "All Cherished Things" an epic about change, sound and transformation.

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Universal Salutation (Excerpt. Recorded aboard the starship Weep-for-Lucifer)
Love Abides
Leontocephaline Rhapsody
All Cherished Things

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Ancestral Songs is comprised of apocalyptic tunes, a banjo raag, mellifluous birdsong, and the sci-fi-sounding duet of a searing Jew's harp and toy piano. "Are You of the Body?" brings out the electric tamboura tone and an accompanying acoustic guitar to melt the spine. A distorted motorik guitar riff propels Ancestral Songs to a close by focusing on the consistent tone and vibration that flows throughout the album.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Living in the Kingdom of Death
Thy Chosen Bride
Moharsing and Schoenhut
Are You of the Body?
O Come and Walk Along (for S.)
O Come and Walk Along (for S.)

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About the name-- it allegedly means something to the members of the group, but they won't say what. A Dutch thing? Just don't ask the guitar player to see his pick.

"... guitarist Aart-Jan Schakenbos, bassist Michael van Dam and drummer Leo Fabriek walk a harrowing path between amplifier anarchy and balanced interaction, never failing to make the two meet. Schakenbos provides the skyscraping as he warps and mutilates single notes with the centrifugal force of massive feedback. Van Dam either drops terrifying bass bombs that fill the vacuum Schakenbos leaves in his wake, drones ominously, or dialogues. Fabriek, however, harnesses the others' energy, as he resists the urge to flail away, and instead inserts a fill when it increases tension, thumps steadily when a groove is needed, or colors when space beckons." --Matthew Wuethrich, Dusted

"A kind of spiritual anarchy surfaces through the distorted bedlam, illuminating a full spectrum of frequencies which gives their most feverish moments the effect of coma-inducing psychical bliss landing somewhere between head banging and catatonia. These guys take it to edge and then push further out until there is literally no physical place left to go. Intense and just brilliant." --Todd Brooks, Foxy Digitalis

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december 12 2006
april 3 2007
december 12 2006
april 25 2007

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Sonically, Klangmutationen marries the heavier and primitive side of Krautrock with the relentless ferocity of avant-jazz-- in particular, the style expressed by early FMP releases and the Japanese variety as chiefly approached by the Takayanagi/Abe school. Other influential elements are the countless avant jazz/rock outfits who have surfaced throughout the decades-- particularly jazz ensembles with loud electric guitars: Last Exit, New Direction Unit, the Blue Humans (and the Arthur Doyle Quartet feat. Rudolph Grey), Music Revelation Ensemble, Tony Williams Lifetime, Moderne Nordeuropaische Dorfmusik, Blauer Hirsch, The Giancarlo Nicolai Trio, Ray Russel, Derek Baileyis Arcana, Sprawl, etc.

La Otracina is Adam Kriney on drums, Ninni Morgia on electric guitar, and Jordon Schranz on electric bass.

KindaMusik listed La Otracina's Love Love Love 2 CD as one of the top 20 best psychedelic albums of the new millennium, along with releases by Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Ghost, and Tower Recordings.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Yellow Mellow Magic
Beyond The Dusty Hills (Cowboy In The Desert Part Two)
Nine Times The Color Red Explodes Like Heated Blood
Sailor Of The Salvian Seas
Ode To Amalthea

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La Otracina's "Tonal Ellipse of the One"

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Why? Well, equally cool names like Black Sabbath, Venom and Pentagram were already taken. But also, the name Lesbian evokes pure, sexually charged freedom -- and that's what rock music is all about.

But enough about the name, let's talk about the Lesbian sound; it's heavy, melodic, dramatic and dynamic. The Seattle-based quartet's multifaceted debut album Power Hör on Holy Mountain (Om, Six Organs of Admittance) heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the album's four tracks shifts moods, dynamics and styles. In any given song, Lesbian deftly lunges from black metal-style blast-beat-and-16th-note-guitar-lines into '70s styled stoner rock riffing and then leaps into lush melodic passages reminiscent of Godspeed You Black Emperor!. The band blends the best elements of many styles of metal: doom, thrash, black, progressive and, yes, even good old "heavy" metal.

Lesbian was formed on a whim in April 2004 by members of Pacific Northwest thunder-sludge bands Golgothan Sunrise, Asva and The Abodox for a one-off set at Seattle's Funhouse. The response was so overwhelming that guitarists Arran McInnis and Daniel La Rochelle, bassist/vocalist Dorando Hodous and drummer Benjamin Kennedy decided to continue on with Lesbian as their primary focus. The band's riffs are dissected and cut into vivid and imaginative parts that splinter and shift in shades of light and dark without coming across overly-technical and soulless. The cinematic quality of Power Hoer envelops a vast array of moods and ideas. It's entrancing and psychedelic while utterly pummeling at the same time.

In order to capture the dynamic force of its live sound, Lesbian enlisted the much-lauded ear of producer Randall Dunn (Sunn0))), Boris, Earth), to help the band achieve its musical vision. Power Hör was recorded and mixed at both the legendary Avast! and Dunn's own Aleph Studio. Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0)))) designed the stunning cover art for the band's debut, befitting its sonic density and complexity. Incorporated into the layout is a striking logo design by John Santos (High on Fire, Kylesa, A Life Once Lost), whose artwork will also grace the cover of an upcoming split LP with Seattle black metallers Book of Black Earth.

Lesbian will be touring extensively in support of the album and has already begun writing new mind-expanding material. But, for now, this is the Power Hör. Clock in and drop out.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Black Forest Hamm
Powerwhorses
Loadbath
Irreversible

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Lesbian "Power Hör"

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Recorded live as a one-time improvisation without overdubs, the three tracks on The Psychic Nature of Being reveal and extend already mesmerizing Lichens live performances.

Holy Mountain's deluxe vinyl edition of The Psychic Nature of Being comes housed in a sturdy old-style tip-on jacket that features original artwork by Mr. Lowe not available on the CD version (to be released on Kranky in October '05). Catch it!

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Kirilian Auras
Shore Line Scoring
You Are Excrement If You Can Turn Yourself Into Gold

Automatic Writing by the Moon's 13 tracks are a mixture of massive overdubbing, wondrous cinematic composition, folksy improvisation and studio experimentation. The backwards feedback of "Astral Projection" is vibrantly illuminating, while the instrumental arrangement of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara's "The Departure" evokes a cosmic western scene. So, yes, this record is psychedelic - if it really must be dumbed down - but not in the burnt-tar hooliganism sense; despite healthy studio trickery, Mr. Lobdell still insists on playing the guitar with his fingers.

• First solo recordings by eminent PacNW mystical pathfinder
• Previous efforts with Davis Redford Triad and The Baseball Astrologer scrambled beaucoups critical eggs
• The dude is in touch with vibrations the rest of us might dream about if we're lucky

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  Automatic Writing by the Moon #1
  Astral Projection
  Carnival of the Dark Moon
  Lids of Pot
  Astride the Waning Moon
  14()() Cancer
  Automatic Writing by the Moon #2
  All Mystics are Numbered
  Pluto in Retrograde
  The Departure
  Uranian Wind
  Aries in 3rd Decanate
  Automatic Writing by the Moon #3

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The Righteous Path Through the Forest of Old
The Outer Rim
Dragon of the Deep Part One
Dragon of the Deep Part Two

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They have no known enemies in the natural world and share symbiotic relationships with hamburgers, sub-goths and dragons. Their album was mastered by a wizard so mighty he has no name. They assure you that his abilities far exceed those of any "terrestrial" engineer, for they send the tapes back in time to be woven with spells of the nameless one that were spoken of before rock could speak.

So, what was the last record you bought that was recorded in "Dragonfidelity" or "Drag-Fi?"

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The Righteous Path Through the Forest of Old
The Outer Rim
Dragon of the Deep Part One
Dragon of the Deep Part Two

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"Excellent Swordfight" is a continuation of the same story told in the debut's "Dragon of the Deep." "Pierce the Darkness" explores being a light in a dark world. "The Changing Wind" is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been sited by Ghost's Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean.

The same heavy, spastic psych as Acid Mothers Temple, Psychic Paramount, Comets on Fire and Green Milk from the Planet Orange.
--Dusted Magazine

While Mammatus hasn't been around for very long, they deliver on just about every level. Their self-titled debut draws heavily on the cornerstones of mind warping, heavy music--Hawkwind, Sleep, Floyd, Sabbath... It's both heavy, soothing, and altogether engrossing. Bottom line, if you want your head caved in and you want to feel really good about it, get this... --StonerRock.com

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Dragon Of The Deep Part Three (Excellent Swordfight)
Pierce The Darkness
The Changing Wind
The Coast Explodes

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Believe me when I say you could found a religion based on this sort of music ... truly transporting. --Ninehertz UK

This is one of the most immaculate, hypnotic and powerful albums I have heard for many many many years. --David Tibet, Current 93

OM create metal music for the mind and soul. --Metal Hammer

Cisneros' trademark mantras, the duo's vicetightness, and a fearsome litany of riff after frequently groovy riff, induce a trance-like euphoria. --Terrorizer

Feels like a series of apocalyptic instructions delivered from some scorched future world. --Dream Magazine

• Follow-up to the duo's wildly popular 2005 debut, Variations On A Theme
  
• OM is Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, rhythm section of legendary sludge and stoner rock pioneers, Sleep
  
• Produced by Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis)

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  At Giza
  Flight of the Eagle

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  OM "Conference Of The Birds"

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Variations on a Theme is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space.

Variations on a Theme is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track, "On The Mountain at Dawn" is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. "Kapila's Theme" furthers the motif while the closer "Annapurna" breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite.

• The triumphant return of two-thirds of Sleep!
  
• A guitar-less music which announces a new era in metal

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  On The Mountain At Dawn
  Kapila's Theme
  Annapurna

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The second side of the LP is a suite dedicated to the state of California complete with references ranging from the construction of the railroads, the natural beauty of the land and the mating rituals of elephant seals. It ends with a distorted take on Los Angeles via UK-colored glasses with the title track which erupts into epic, pulsing, skronk-raunch riffs that cease to abate for the duration of the song's 10-minute length (all the while making references to summer, SST records, earthquakes and helicopters flying through the streets of Hollywood seeking out pillaging Slayer fans. Really. It's all there).

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Death Comes For The Archbishop
Lorelei
{G}-x-nou(gh) Part II
Knowe Part I
Motametrik Canopy Entrybl
Greetings Ancient Ocean
Bleu Eyes

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Santa Cruz, California-- known for abandoned military bases where rumors persist of strange mind control experiments a la Montauk-- is an area that was at one time the "serial killer capitol of the world." I know, I missed that sign, too. Anyway, you've got these mountains full of getting- away-from-the-city-type cults and communes rife with pure magical evil and ritual sacrifices. Whoa, Maury Terry; hold on there, Preston Nichols-- what's this got do with a high-energy psychedelic rock band? Have you heard about these experimental drugs that afflict enemy soldiers with intense halitosis, or cause their hair fall out, or the one that makes everyone super-horny? This album is like a really small dose of that kind of drug. Go to one of their shows. The band gets crazy and the people who see them get even crazier.

• Julian Cope's January 2005 Album of the Month

  30-second MP3 excerpts:

  Slant
  Diamond Drops
  Fish Don't Swim
  This Is Not A Start
  A Start 1 & 2
  A Stardt 3 & 3 1/2
  Better Substitute For Butter

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  Residual Echoes "s/t" (Holy Mountain)

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Lusciously packaged in an old school tip-on jacket, the package includes a CD version of the album because, seriously, it's what you'll want to listen to wielding a golf club with your upper body outside the sunroof of your car as you steer with your feet. The soundtrack to all that is good and true in this world.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

I Think I Am Becoming God
Hadliku Ner
Moroccan Summer
The Day When He Himself Shall Wipe Away My Tears

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• These are pop songs
  
• Comets on Fire connection
  
• As the cover photo proves, Ben Chasny is not an elf

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Close to the Sky
  Run!
  Wind in My Palm
  Somewhere Between
  CompathIa
  Gone Astray
  Hum a Silent Prayer
  Only the Sun Knows

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  Six Organs of Admittance "Compathia" (Holy Mountain)

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Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasny's electric guitar as a lead instrument.

Minds can only be blown by this album. Initiation is only a matter of time. This is the dream follow-up release that fans of Six Organs of Admittance have been waiting for.

• Drop two tabs in this and come down screaming
  
• Linked with something old and good, a heritage, a standard
  
• Accept it: your mind, such as it is, is Ben Chasny's to blow

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Spirits Abandoned
  Regeneration
  On Returning Home
  Dark Noontide
  This Hand
  Awaken
  Khidr and the Fountain
  A Thousand Birds

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  Six Organs of Admittance "Dark Noontide" (Holy Mountain)

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