Description:	180g LP on Temporary Residence
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Temporary Residence
	Price:	£16.39
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...according to our Phil on 08 October 2008.

Grails I've never really got. Try as I might I just find the music a bit too hoary, stonery and proggy for my tastes. And here's their brand new album Doomsdayer's Holiday on Temporary Residence! It's well proggy.... the production I like though and there's some nice bits in it. Clearly a bunch of talented folk here and the homage to John Barry on track 3 (The Natural Man) is the best thing I've heard by 'em. It's well spy with that plinky harpsichord sound.... though lurking in the background is some meandering and seemingly un necessary guitar feedback. Though I will say I do like that song a lot. I'm sure if I was enormously stoned then this would make a lot more sense to me but as I've just worked 11 hours, had a shit day, not eaten and all I can think of is going to bed it's got no chance whatsoever. Though being stoned and listening to this is more appealing right now than most things I can think of doing so maybe that's what I should be doing? Cock knows....I'm sure it's their hundredth album this year? Well maybe not that many but how many albums have they done? Hey they don't half knock 'em out.

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What their label says...

The players: Emil Amos, Alex John Hall, William Slater, Wm. Zak Riles. Following up last year’s Burning Off Impurities and their recent Take Refuge In Clean Living EP, Grails return with their darkest, heaviest record yet. Written and recorded over the last 18 months, Doomsdayer’s Holiday delivers on the promises made by their previous albums, taking equal pride in smoky psychedelics and mountain-ascending riffs. With Faust conspirator Steven Wray Lobdell and Earth/Sunn O))) producer Randall Dunn as engineers – not to mention drummer Emil Amos having recently become the new other half of Om – Grails’ avant-metal leanings are evident as always. But Doomsdayer’s Holiday finds their already-broad palette continually expanding with 70s European film noir and cosmic free jazz explorations to compliment the Middle Eastern psychedelic folk-metal the group is already known for. Inviting the legendary Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls to add vocals to the mix for the ominous “Predestination Blues” only adds to its unusual beauty. Doomsdayer‘s Holiday is the culmination of a wildly prolific three-year streak for Grails. This band that never stops pushing forward has finally made an album that pushes back. Devoted students of the past, they have transcended their genre to become an inspiring influence for future celestial explorers. Track Listing: 1. Doomsdayer’s Holiday 2. Reincarnation Blues 3. The Natural Man 4. Immediate Mate 5. Predestination Blues 6. X-Contaminations 7. Acid Rain.