REZN - Let It Burn (2017)
Making their debut with this album, the
Chicago-based REZN (subtle, yeah?) touch down with ten tracks of
spacy psychedelic stoner doom, trading in thick and heavy bass waves,
tripped-out vocals, and effective use of drony tones to build some
songs which carry a sense of immense weight and oncoming destruction.
While the undulating distortion of the vocals can make them
difficult to decipher, the way in which they're delivered makes it
easy to pick up on their Sabbath-like crooning of doom and dread, and
groove right along with it.
Thankfully, the band doesn't rely
entirely on the common 'throw bass at the speakers until it solves
everything' approach, as they show some nice tunefulness among the
low-end swells, with tracks like “Orbit” and the back-to-back
“Dread” and “Rezurrection” demonstrating the handle they have
on melodiousness to go with the volume (with the last of those even
bringing in some sitar-like strings for a taste of retro
psychedelia). Interconnections between the songs step up the band's
style even further, and the circling back through early song
territory on their way through the rest of the album adds a neat sort
of hypnotic time displacement to the experience.
All together, it's an impressive debut
album, one which shows the band having a solid grip on their current
style, but with room to grow on future efforts. The experimentation
and riff playfulness provide strong points in REZN's favor, as does
their tendency to work in some interesting atmospheric touches, and
I'm urious to see how they'll change things up with their next
release. Fans of heavy psych and space doom should check this crew
out, the sooner, the better.
~ Gabriel
For Fans Of; Brume, Ritual Abuse-era Cough, Dopelord, pre-Buckingham Electric Wizard, Reptensol
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