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Feature Review: Shelter from the Ash by Six Organs of Admittance |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 1:17 pm |
| Tags: music |
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Say you like to meditate. Say you like to sit in a room and think real hard and then not think at all. Say you like a little sound in the background to help keep that head of yours on straight. Say you don't mind some vocals, but not too many, some jangling now-it's-folksy/now-it's-noodling guitar, maybe a dash of sometimes-shimmery/sometimes-bombastic drumming to toy with your heart rate. Say you pop in the new Six Organs of Admittance album, expecting to get exactly what you're looking for. Say you find something that upsets the Big Mind just a little more than you wanted. And that's how Shelter from the Ash, due next Tuesday from Drag City, shakes expectations. By relying on Ben Chasny's guitar and comforting (though spare) vocals to craft subtle, beautiful, and haunting ragas, Six Organs has developed a fine reputation as a western band in touch with eastern musical roots though their sound is often referred to as psychedelic, the more appropriate term [ Full article ] |
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