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Grails
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Description: | USED 2xLP on Temporary Residence, EX+/EX |
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| Format: | Double LP (vinyl) | |
| Condition: | Used | |
| Genre(s): | Experimental/Math/Noise Rock | |
| Label: | Temporary Residence | |
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£15.39
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Phil on 04 April 2007.
I really wanted to like this GRAILS CD on Temporary Residence but I have struggled with it. I've heard it a good few times now and I've come to the conclusion I just don't like it. Burning off Impurities sounds like the edgier end of the Doors when they went all psychedelic crossed with Spinal Tap when they're doing their Stonehenge hippy improv wankfest. Don't get me wrong.... I love a lot of hippy music.... The Doors I can cope with and Spinal Tap is a great film (Big Bottom is a great tune). Mix all 3 together though and it's a load of pretentious 70's stoned twaddle which folks will be saying is genius but they'll be too off their arse to really know...
Following soon after the critically praised Black Tar Prophecies collection on Important Records, Portland, Oregon’s Grails return with their first proper studio album since 2004 release of Redlight. Burning Off Impurities – their debut for Temporary Residence Ltd. – makes good on the promise of those past releases in delivering an album that not only thursts the group to new heights, but also pushes the instrumental rock genre forward for the first time in nearly a decade. An increased interest in psychedelic, ambient and world musics is most likely to blame for Grails’ exploration of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. In addition, their eclectic range of collaborative endeavors – guitarist Zak Riles is also in M. Ward‘s band, while drummer Emil Amos has moonlighted as Jandek’s
drummer – has introduced an element of improvisation and reinterpretation of ideas that is both brilliant and earnest. Like Black Tar Prophecies, Burning Off Impurities was produced by Grails, with production assistance by Jeff Saltzman and Steven Wray Lobdell (of avant-garde legends, Faust). Influenced in equal parts by Ash Ra Tempel, Erkin Koray, Popol Vuh, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and dozens others, this is very likely the closest Grails will ever get to making a classic rock record; the kind of sprawling masterpiece that you savor for years before passing it on to your younger brother so he can repeat the process.
