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SUNN O - Pyroclasts - Vinyl (limited heavyweight pink vinyl LP with obi-strip)
Sold Date:
December 13, 2019
Start Date:
November 4, 2019
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information SUNN O Pyroclasts(limited heavyweight pink vinyl LP with obi-strip) Southern Lord US
Cat: SUNN 333LPPV. Rel: 4 Nov 19
Post Rock/Experimental
Side 1 - Track 1. Frost (C) Side 1 - Track 2. Kingdoms (G) Side 2 - Track 1. Ampliphaedies (A) Side 2 - Track 2. Ascension (E)
To describe "Pyroclasts" as an album would be misleading. It's certainly as commanding as any LP you'll hear this month, but running at just four tracks, and with the focus on mood rather than conventional ideas such as songcraft, it's really meant to be heard in one long, tripped-out listening session where each of the pieces meld into one huge overture. The result of a practice routine attendees of the Life Metal sessions at Electrical Audio took part in during mornings and evenings, it tells you everything there is to know when someone says "musical participants would gather and work through a 12 minute improvised modal drone", giving a chance for people to "greet each other and the space through the practice of sound immersion." Deep, guttural, distorted, expansive and riddled with discordant melodies, if you listen out for them, it stops short of white noise but guitars rarely make for such meditative scores.
