Grails - Black Tar Prophecies 1 2 & 3
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Artist: GrailsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Important Records
Soundtracks:
- Back to the Monastery
- Bad Bhang Recipe
- Belgian Wake-Up Drill
- Smokey Room
- Black Tar Frequencies
- Stray Dog
- Erosion Blues [#]
- More Erosion [#]
- Black Tar Prophecy
Free Music Notes for Black Tar Prophecies 1 2 & 3
Free Music Review: Super gloomy rhythmscapes, jazzy piano, totally dubbed out drums, everything bathed in smoky atmospheric swirl
Hit: 5 Stars
It maybe took a little while, but folks around here finally started digging the Grails, A LOT. After their last record, their second release on Neurot, the band went through some personnel shifts, which often trigger the end of a band, but in this case, pushed the band in new directions and resulted in some of their best music to date. That Neurot record was cool, but at the time I had sort of reached my post rock, quiet-loud-quiet saturation point. It wasn't that the Grails weren't a great band, it was because I had raised my bar on moody epic post rock. It was no longer enough to just drift along post-rockily before exploding into epic metallic bombast and drifting back again. As pleasant as that is to listen to, there was SO MUCH of that going around, I just needed something more. Soon after the band released an ep of international psych covers and that was the beginning of a glorious new direction. I knew whatever was gonna come next would be a killer, and thankfully, The Black Tar Prophecies, are indeed just that.
The whole three volumes thing was a bit confusing, and still is. Regardless, this is some, dark and amazing, absolutely beautiful music. With the Black Tar Prophecies, the Grails finally shrugged off their influences and forged their own sound, never hesitating to experiment, explore, or f-ck around with songs and sound. These musical 'Prophecies' just might just be the weirdest, most subtle, least rock set of songs they've ever produced. I was definitely always a fan, but when I heard that psych covers ep, on which they covered psychedelic songs from around the world, including faves Flower Travellin Band, well, I was suddenly WAY more than a fan. They had me at Flower Travellin Band.
Anyway, Black Tar Prophecies takes their obsession with psych rock, and their deft mastery of all things post rock, and turns them inward, into a darker, doomier, moodier place. And I love it. Super gloomy rhythmscapes, jazzy piano, totally dubbed out drums, everything bathed in smoky atmospheric swirl. Reminds me a little of Bohren & Der Club Of Gore at times. Songs that wander down dark alleys, streetlights barely illuminating the murky streets, sonic ghost towns, haunting cinematic postrockscapes, like a more rock DJ Shadow, all low slung bass and shuffling rhythms, very smoky and dreamlike. Elsewhere, dreamy psychedelic guitarscapes, strummed acoustic guitars, beneath fuzzed out moody psych leads, really seventies sounding, like a more abstract post rock Hendrix / Santana thing. But the doom inclined among you will find much to love too, here and there, thick slabs of glacial sound that will have dronedirgedoom nerds frothing at the mouth, as if to prove they can throw down with the big boys (Boris, Corrupted, Isis, Pelican, Moss, etc...) the band unleash massive downtuned dirges, thick washes of slow sludge guitars woven into tarpit riffs of gargantuan proportion, distortion so blown out it crumbles like dirt clods stuffed in your ears, the recording strangely lo-fi, giving the proceedings a dreary droney, Hawkwind meets Gore sort of dirgedoom vibe. Epic and amazing.
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