No, your eyes aren't decieving you, this really is a collaboration between darkside icons Sunn O))) and Pan Sonic, backed with original material from Alan Vega and Stephen Burroughs. For many moody souls this is a union made in the pits of your imagination, featuring a full blooded Sunn O))) line up including The Melvins' Joe Preston on vocals, and spooked Hammond organ from Steve Moore of Earth creating a hellish miasmah of fugged-up drones and psychedelically altered atmospheres finished with a brittle coating of electronics from Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio. The results are outstanding and in the light of their awesome recent LP, shows Sunn O))) to be at the peak of their mystical powers. Like the 'Monolith' session, the expanded range of instrumentation is fully incorporated into the group's sound. When Moore's Hammond organ settles into place after the introductory heavy sighs of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's abyssal guitar plumbing they evoke a deeply religious spirit, while Vanio's hi-end decorations serve to form an aura of intangibly spectral interference. Alan Vega's 'Thirteen Crosses (Live 2008)' offers a distantly recorded excerpt of a recording displaying him in muffled and slightly worn form. The B-side is rescued however with Head Of David frontman Stephen Burroughs' morose 'Goodbye Darling', a solo composition for acoustic guitar apparently recorded in one take. Pressed on white vinyl and with hand stamped sleeves featuring designs from O'Malley, this is a must for any bastards with a blackened heart.
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No, your eyes aren't decieving you, this really is a collaboration between darkside icons Sunn O))) and Pan Sonic, backed with original material from Alan Vega and Stephen Burroughs. For many moody souls this is a union made in the pits of your imagination, featuring a full blooded Sunn O))) line up including The Melvins' Joe Preston on vocals, and spooked Hammond organ from Steve Moore of Earth creating a hellish miasmah of fugged-up drones and psychedelically altered atmospheres finished with a brittle coating of electronics from Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio. The results are outstanding and in the light of their awesome recent LP, shows Sunn O))) to be at the peak of their mystical powers. Like the 'Monolith' session, the expanded range of instrumentation is fully incorporated into the group's sound. When Moore's Hammond organ settles into place after the introductory heavy sighs of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's abyssal guitar plumbing they evoke a deeply religious spirit, while Vanio's hi-end decorations serve to form an aura of intangibly spectral interference. Alan Vega's 'Thirteen Crosses (Live 2008)' offers a distantly recorded excerpt of a recording displaying him in muffled and slightly worn form. The B-side is rescued however with Head Of David frontman Stephen Burroughs' morose 'Goodbye Darling', a solo composition for acoustic guitar apparently recorded in one take. Pressed on white vinyl and with hand stamped sleeves featuring designs from O'Malley, this is a must for any bastards with a blackened heart.
No, your eyes aren't decieving you, this really is a collaboration between darkside icons Sunn O))) and Pan Sonic, backed with original material from Alan Vega and Stephen Burroughs. For many moody souls this is a union made in the pits of your imagination, featuring a full blooded Sunn O))) line up including The Melvins' Joe Preston on vocals, and spooked Hammond organ from Steve Moore of Earth creating a hellish miasmah of fugged-up drones and psychedelically altered atmospheres finished with a brittle coating of electronics from Pan Sonic's Mika Vainio. The results are outstanding and in the light of their awesome recent LP, shows Sunn O))) to be at the peak of their mystical powers. Like the 'Monolith' session, the expanded range of instrumentation is fully incorporated into the group's sound. When Moore's Hammond organ settles into place after the introductory heavy sighs of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson's abyssal guitar plumbing they evoke a deeply religious spirit, while Vanio's hi-end decorations serve to form an aura of intangibly spectral interference. Alan Vega's 'Thirteen Crosses (Live 2008)' offers a distantly recorded excerpt of a recording displaying him in muffled and slightly worn form. The B-side is rescued however with Head Of David frontman Stephen Burroughs' morose 'Goodbye Darling', a solo composition for acoustic guitar apparently recorded in one take. Pressed on white vinyl and with hand stamped sleeves featuring designs from O'Malley, this is a must for any bastards with a blackened heart.