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Album of the day: Elder – Elder

Posted on Friday, August 21st, 2009

Boston’s Elder answer the eternal stonerrock question — what would happen if you crossed Fu Manchu and Sleep? — by dropping an amazing album of pure stoner rock.

Actually, limiting Elder’s sound to just Fu and Sleep is selling them way short as they have many subtleties at work in their music like amazing background keyboard textures and cleverly layered guitar elements to vary the space and density of their work. There is also a bit of a “classic” metal influence to be found in their guitar work.

Elder - Elder

Rest assured though, these erudite elements only serve to buttress the main point — stoner rock riffs rule. Elder may not be the first to make that point, but they just might be the best there is right now.
Drew Webster

Tags: album of the day, Elder, Electric Earth, Meteorcity, Stonerrock
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