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Album of the day: Pontiak – Sea Voids

Posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010

Pontiak - Sea Voids

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Reviews: Pontiak’s fourth full-length is a grab-bag of styles: Sabbathy-sludge, amp torturing experimentation, Cream-like alchemies of whispery verse and electric blues, and quiet little folk tunes.

Where Sun on Sun and Pontiak’s half of Kale (split with Arbouretum) seemed to place the band on a trajectory towards Kyuss’ bludgeoning hallucinations, Sea Voids opens up a jigsaw puzzle box worth of possibilities, jamming pieces in side by side without much thought about how they fit together.

Sea Voids has its share of crushers. It opens with “Suzerain”’s Iommi-ish crunch and swagger, a slow series of giant chords tottering under their own weight. “Worldwide Prince” is similarly familiar, with broodingly slow riffs blossoming under soft, dream-hazed vocals. (This is the one that sounds like Cream.) And “The Spiritual Nurse” may just be the best of the bunch, constructed on crisp, geometrical rhythms, with plenty of negative space so that the guitar riffs seem even louder in contrast.

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Album of the day: Pontiak – Maker

Posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Aural States: Drenched in reverb, as though recorded in some distant wooded canyon, ex-Baltimoreans Pontiak follow up their hard-rocking psychedelic debut with another strong offering of much of the same. Which is problematic, because somehow this band sounds both all too familiar and equally difficult to describe. ...read more