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FOCUS ON: Subarachnoid Space
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- Label: Crucial Blast >>
- Genre: Alternative & Punk
"On these loping workouts their music sustains a fierce energy level and builds into a relentless mass of rhythm and fury." The Wire.
Reviews of The Red Veil Terrorizer says: rated: 8 by Damien It's nine albums in as many years for US purveyors of "psychotropic instrumental rock" SubarArachnoid Space, and 'The Red Veil' sees them taking yet another minor departure from their previous release, probing further in the worlds explored on 2003s 'Also Rising'. In general, these avenues are rather less lazily satisfying and less rounded than the likes of 2000's 'These Things Take Time', a more challenging and confrontational journey set against the latter's thoroughly trippy vibes. They still have the Hawkwind moments and the Huw Lloyd Langton leads, but it's more condensed over any given time period and probably more stressful if you're stoned. That 'The Verve when they do space rock' feel has largely been purged-hell, they've even got blastbeats in places. Another colourful entry in the log book of the modern psychedelic underground.
from Music R 3 in Chicago: Mason Jones, the founding guitarist and electronicist of this long-standing west coast heavy-psych band, doesn't play on it's new album, The Red Veil (strange attractors audio house), but the reconfigured group gets along remarkably well without him; with underrated guitarist Melynda Jackson stepping forward, the lengthy instrumentals show the increasing influence of darkwave and doom metal. There are new wisps of ethereality in the songs, and they hit new depths of crunge, but slow building spacey drones are still the crux of the matter. I've seen the band live before and enjoyed them immensely, though i'll warn you-they treat volume as an instrument unto itself.
