Welcome to pyschedelic noise scuzz hell, scum. This CD is serious and is not forgiving of nonbelievers. A "power trio" comprised of main minds behind Wooden Wand, Hush Arbours, and Sunburned Hand of the Man, Zodiacs are out to destroy yr fragile mind and everything it holds earthly. This is powerful incensing destructo rock from deeper corners of drug altered minds, grabbing the sun in two hands and throwing it down to earth in fiery storm of fuzzed out shit guitar, crashing drums heavy on the cymbals and wandering bass completely forging it's own path. Make no mistake- this is heavy beyond words in every sort of way and totally wasted, drowning in its hallucinations of rock majesty. Four epic tracks of utter void with no attention to melody, production values or structure, just pure, improvised electric guitar-led waste. Completely outstanding and frightening, wah-ed out guitars paying homage to darker gods while listless rhythyms pound your psyche into oblivion. To me, this collective work surpasses everything these three guys have done in their own work and that says a lot, because i love Wooden Wand as well as Hush Arbours (check out their contribution to Three Lobed Records' "Modern Containment" series for an equally mind melding dose of crippling psych guitar, preceded by a whole record's worth of fragile dryad/forest depths psych.) Don't worry-it's not all free form "reach for the sky" guitar heroics-Zodiacs lock into a groove in every track and these grooves will carry you the fuck away-it's very reminsicent of the equally fucking amazing Residual Echoes (and how very surprising that the two entitities share a label, the incredible Holy Mountain. ) This record is gonna go down in the annals of modern psych history as a massive document of three major powers in the underworld forces of psychedelics and with good reason-it's powerful like Fushitsusha, loud and scuzzy like Boris' most damaged moments and interested in nothing other than griding your mind into pulp. Waste away.
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