ETERNAL ELYSIUM Searching High and Low Leafhound ________________________________________________________
It’s been
about three years since EE released a full-length record, and the last one
I heard sounded like a psychedelic death bomb exploding in the park down
the street. It was gnarly, weird, desperately heavy stoner-doom stuff, of
interest mostly to dopefreaks too high to care if demons were crawling
into their ears. Somewhere between here and there, however, these Japanese
Lotus eaters have honed their jagged attack into a solid groove of
Sabbath-y reefer roll that rides on 70’s hard rock boogie, mangled glam
hooks, and flowing green waves of bubbling cosmic goo. It’s still
heavy-ass head-trip stuff, no doubt, but now it ain’t all fuckin’ evil.
More planetarium laser show than late-night mortar raid sneak attack, dig?
Hell, there’s even a bouncy, acoustic instrumental on here called “Hazy
Sublime” that’s a deadringer for Tyrannosaurus Rex! So there ya go, man.
Everybody’s doing the Bolan boogie these days, even narco-doom tyrants
from Japan. Pick this bitch up and slowly melt into the couch for an
afternoon.
It’s been
about three years since EE released a full-length record, and the last one
I heard sounded like a psychedelic death bomb exploding in the park down
the street. It was gnarly, weird, desperately heavy stoner-doom stuff, of
interest mostly to dopefreaks too high to care if demons were crawling
into their ears. Somewhere between here and there, however, these Japanese
Lotus eaters have honed their jagged attack into a solid groove of
Sabbath-y reefer roll that rides on 70’s hard rock boogie, mangled glam
hooks, and flowing green waves of bubbling cosmic goo. It’s still
heavy-ass head-trip stuff, no doubt, but now it ain’t all fuckin’ evil.
More planetarium laser show than late-night mortar raid sneak attack, dig?
Hell, there’s even a bouncy, acoustic instrumental on here called “Hazy
Sublime” that’s a deadringer for Tyrannosaurus Rex! So there ya go, man.
Everybody’s doing the Bolan boogie these days, even narco-doom tyrants
from Japan. Pick this bitch up and slowly melt into the couch for an
afternoon.