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Sons Of Otis/Queen Elephantine
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales of Otis (Sons of Otis) | Sons of Otis | 7:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Oxazejam (Sons of Otis) | Sons of Otis | 9:58 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | The Battle of Massacoit/The Weapon of the King of Gods (Queen El | Queen Elephantine | 25:51 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 3 Songs |
Recent Customer Reviews
Long, slow, sludgy, meticulous, and subtle doom--great listening.
by King LindormOverall verdict:
To my mind, Doomslayer has the album's overall effect pegged pretty well in his review. This music--through repetition, crawling tempos, layered drones, and deliberate yet expansive riffs--functions much like a mantra. The sounds eventually fall away leaving something both more and less than music in the mind of the listener. And of course, the nearly completely instrumental nature of this release only serves to heighten the aforementioned effect. As a result, these songs reward repeated, focused listening, but can fade into nuanced, moody ambience when one pays less attention to the tracks. A sensitive and brooding collection of compositions overall, showing a fine grasp of grace and heaviness in music.
The Tracks:
1. "Tales of Otis:" perhaps the weakest track of the lot. Massive, slow, feedback-drenched, down-tuned guitars play a repetition of scales over a gigantic, slothful drumline. Stark and minimalist in sensiblity in a way that remins one of Asva's morely sparsely composed works, this track, in my opinion, suffers a bit from being a little too repetitive. Fully insturmental.
2. "Oxazejam:" a lusher, more charismatic, and finely turned cousin to "Tales of Otis." Spaced-out, "stonerish," down-tuned guitars crawl and improvise their way over a laid-back drum section. This track has a jazz-inflected take on doom, not too much unlike some of Electric Wizard's funkier work, early Black Sabbath, or Kyuss. Fully instrumental
3. "The Battle of Massacoit/The Weapon of the King of the Gods:" The jewel of this album, length here only increases the enjoyment. As seems a somewhat popular trend in doorm, one can roughly divide this track into a progression of movements. We open with nimble bongo-work and delicate, subdued cymbals played over the huge, almost geolithic, single-note washes of a guitar, slowly building tension. About ten minutes in, soft, wordless vocals spiral into play along with stepped-up, jazz-inflected work from the drums, and a clean, spaced-out guitar begins to improvise over the waves of the opeing bass guitar. At about sixteen minutes, vocals, cymbals, and cleam guitar fall away, and a sitar emerges from the depths. Finally, by nineteen minutes, the clean guitar and cymbals have returned to join the sitar, bongos, bass, and some vaguely discernable, chant-like vocals. For subtlety, range of vision and emotion, this track alone is worth the album price.
If you like Doom, pick this up
by DoomslayerInstrumental Doom that will send you into the Black Hole of Consciousness , melting your mind and twisting your thoughts.
- $9.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Christian & Gospel
- Released: Apr 04, 2007
- ℗ 2007 Concrete Lo-Fi Records
