Praise for Sloath‘s S/T from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: We love Riot Season. Easily one of our favorite labels, consistently delivering fucked up heavy weirdness, far out psychedelia, and pretty much every variation in between, Shit And Shine, Acid Mothers Temple, Aluk Todolo, Black Boned Angel, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Todd, Skull Defekts, Mainliner, Circle, Hey Colossus, Aufgehoben, most recently Ultraphallus, and now Sloath, who couldn’t have found a more fitting home for their sprawling slo-mo downtuned doomage.
The label mentions Sleep and Sabbath and Melvins and Earth (old Earth we presume), and while these guys do carry on the tradition of doomed out heaviness. It’s also it’s own warped beast. Three epic jams, super hypnotic and mesmerizing, the guitars massive, so distorted that at times it sounds like the speakers are getting fried. But it’s also melodic, lumbering and moody and epic. The vocals, wordless and chantlike. The band locking into full on psychedoomdelic space jams, like some sort of ultra heavy Hawkwind. The tracks laced with streaks of feedback, occasionally getting super dynamic, slipping from lurching groove to Harvey Milk like extreme plod to woozy slowcore slither.
The final track is a massive 22 minute epic, beginning all post rocky and lightly psychedelic, clean guitars, simple minimal rhythm, but still subtly doomy and heavy, the sort of thing that psych rock heavies should be flipping for. The vocals delivered like some psych doom shamen, and after about 9 minutes, the hammer falls, the guitars explode, even more distorted than before, the track building to a seriously majestic in-the-red space rock doom sludge blow out, wild psych leads draped over the churning Sabbathy swing underneath, totally heavy and epic and fucking incredible.
This RULES. These guys are the perfect bridge between the doom / sludge scene and the space rock / psych world, two sounds that really aren’t all that far removed from each other as they seen anyway.
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Tags: Album of the day, Aquarius Records, drone, psychedelica, Riot Season, Sloath, sludge
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