OM Pilgrimage LP

OM Pilgrimage LP

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(Southern Lord)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
After years of being oput of print on vinyl, Om's brain-glazing third album Pilgrimage is back on wax, issued by Southern Lord in a new pressing of six hundred copies on black vinyl, packaged in a case-wrapped gatefold jacket for this version. Still as heavy and hypnotic and hymn-like as it was when Pilgrimage originally came out back in 2007, this is an essential addition to every Om fan's collection. Here's my old write-up of the album from when it first came out in CD seven years ago...
The transcendent riffmasters return with their third album (and first for new label Southern Lord), Pilgrimage. At this point, Om's modus operandi has been made clear: to create the most hypnotic and trance-inducing riffs possible using only bass guitar and drums, strip them down to the most spare and skeletal form, and proceed to grind them out into unending, eternal waves of serpentine heaviness. Even without the angelic cover artwork and mystical lyrics, it's hard not to attribute a kind of spiritual power to Om's music due to the flowing, circular mantra-like riffs and the druggy, incantatory vocal chants. The duo of Chris Hakius and Al Cisneros established themselves years ago as one of the heaviest rhythm sections in underground music during their tenure with the psychedelic sludgebeast Sleep, but their work with Om and the reductionist manner in which they continue to explore the power of the riff at an almost obsessive level of detail is producing the greatest music of their career, in my opinion. With a thunderous recording by Steve Albini, Pilgrimage opens with the title track, a smoke-filled, subdued raga march into oblivion, tambourine-like percussion rattling over suppressed tribal drumming, the song weaving and winding through it's 10 minute duration, creating a simmering anticipation that finally finds release when "Unitive Knowledge Of The Godhead" follows, flipping the switch on the distortion pedal and releasing the full force 4/4 pummel as Om levels the block with a devastating saurian riff. "Bhima's Theme" may be the heaviest jam from Om so far, a 12 minute sludgefeast of Sleep proportions that changes up the central riff theme that the guys have been chasing throughout the album up until this point. The album closes with a reprise of the title track, returning to the theme of the opening piece with subtle changes to the riff, demanding that Pilgrimage be set to repeat on your stereo and allowed to play over and over again, the songs, the riffs, the chanting all repeating themselves forever.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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