martes, 23 de junio de 2009

Earthless: "Sonic Prayer EP" (Gravity, 2005)


With two tracks clocking in at just under 40 minutes, Sonic Prayer is a molten mass of psychedelic guitar dirge, calling out the ghosts of Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer. Guitarist Isaiah Mitchell has been here before with the feedback-laced, wah-wah enhanced, hard rock-leaning Nebula, but with Earthless, he ditches conventional song-structure entirely. Instead, he uses the monumental beat kicked out by Clikitat Ikatowi and Hot Snakes' Mario Rubalcaba, and given slippery, heavy resonance by bass player Mike Eginton (ex-Electric Nazarene), to build pillowing waves of sonic sculpture -- now mesmeric circles, now knife-sharp bursts, now flame-licking explosions of electric guitar sound.

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