Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night (2009)

Artist: Six Organs Of Admittance
Album: Luminous Night (CD, Album)
Label: Drag City
Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Folk, Experimental
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Quality: MP3, CBR 320 kb/s
Total Size: 95,3 MB

Luminous Night (Drag City, 2009) continued the trend of Six Organs of Admittance towards a more sober and traditional form of folk revival (and way more professionally produced). The medieval dance of Actaeon's Fall is both melodic and rhythmic, and could have featured on both the British folk albums of the late 1960s and the new-age albums of the 1980s. Because of the higher (and louder) production values and the emphasis on catchiness, Anesthesia and Ursa Minor sound dangerously like mainstream pop. Atmospheric songs such as Bar-Nasha retain some of the old otherworldly appeal but ultimately there is little here that can match the days of yore. Even the electronic-noise mantra Cover Your Wounds With The Sky, that in theory would be the closest thing to vintage Six Organs of Admittance, adds touches of chamber music that sound kitschy and new-agey; and the closer, Enemies Before The Light, a psychedelic chant wrapped in noise, delves into some kind of distorted guitar jam that sounds positively outdated. The simultaneously majestic and languid River Of Heaven might represent the clue to a meaningful future without the intricate guitar ragas of the past.

Credits:
Mastered By — Mell Dettmer
Producer, Recorded By — Randall Dunn
Written-By, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Electronics — Ben Chasny

Tracklisting:
1. Actaeon's Fall (Against The Hounds) (4:18)
2. Anesthesia (4:10)
3. Bar-Nasha (6:25)
4. Cover Your Wounds With The Sky (4:19)
5. Ursa Minor (5:03)
6. River Of Heaven (7:42)
7. The Ballad Of Charley Harper (4:55)
8. Enemies Before The Light (5:26)