DANIEL HIGGS RETURNS WITH HIS SECOND FULL-LENGTH RECORDING FORHOLY MOUNTAIN AFTER LAST YEAR’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ANCESTRALSONGS AND HIS CONTRIBUTION, ATOMIC YGGDRASIL TAROT, TO THRILLJOCKEY’S SERIES OF BOOKS COLLECTING ART AND MUSIC.METEMPSYCHOTIC MELODIES CONTINUES TO DOCUMENT HIGGS’S RISEAS A SOLO PERFORMER.RAW, PICKED ACOUSTIC GUITAR DRONES DOMINATE METEMPSYCHOTICMELODIES AS THE INSTRUMENTAL ‘UNIVERSAL SALUTATION’FADES INTO THE WAKING DREAM SOLILOQUY OF OBSERVATION ‘LOVEABIDES.’ ‘LEONTOCEPHALINE RHAPSODY’ IS A LONG WALTZY DRONEWITH AS MUCH SPOOKY ATMOSPHERE AS ANYTHING RECORDED ATSUNSHINE STUDIOS (THERE IS A HEAVY VOGEL VIBE TO THE WHOLETHING). RUMOR HAS IT ENGINEER TIM GREEN TOLD HIGGS IF HE DIDN’T FADE THE TRACK, THEY WERE GOING TO BE ARRESTED. VOCALS RETURNFOR THE CLOSING TRACK ‘ALL CHERISHED THINGS,’ AN EPIC ABOUTCHANGE, SOUND, AND TRANSFORMATION.
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