Acid Elephant - Star Collider (2013)
Star Collider is Acid Elephant's second
full album, and though there's only five songs to it, the album
clocks in at over an hour of wild and wooly psychedelic shakes.
Things start out rather innocently, with the desert-rocky “Las
Noches del Desierto”, but things only get heavier, madder, and more
doomed from there, culminating in the almost half-hour of sinking
provided by “bog”. En route to that swampy fate, the intensity
is masterfully developed, with moments, as in “7th
Stone”, in which the guitar's slow pace gobbles everything else
right up, until the percussion and synthesizer can recover and grow
back into place. At other times, they'll erupt into volcanic bursts
of white-hot activity, or let the sludgy bass pour over the rest and
out of your speakers.
As “bog” settles into place to draw
the album to a close, one riff emerges to dominate the music, and the
band throws themselves under its sway, letting that riff bend
everything to its will, from the rumbling grind of subterranean
synth-work to the earthquake-threatening hum of the bass. When the
end finally comes, if you've listened to the album front-to-back,
it's a little like coming out of a trance; you have to shake yourself
a little to make sure everything's intact. Damn good stuff, and
quite a treat.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Salem's Pot,
Olde Growth, Tons, Sleep, Eternal Elysium
~
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