26th October 2009

Audio

Om - Cremation Ghat II
God is Good (Drag City)

“Stoner metal,” but actually heavy, post-rock with Middle-Eastern and Indian modal touches healthily stirred in.  I’m not super familiar with these dudes, but God is Good is apparently their fourth full-length, and it was engineered by undergound super-prick (super-genius) Steve Albini, so you can feel pretty confident that this is how these guys sound live, since Albini tries mainly to capture the original live sound.

As I said before, it’s post-rock, so you won’t be surprised to find that the first track, “Thebes,” lasts twenty minutes. I’ve not posted that here, because the file is too big. Since it’s twenty minutes.

It is good though, and you can find it streaming at Om’s page on Drag City’s website.  I’ve uploaded the fourth and last track on the record, “Cremation Ghat II,” a droning cut, mixing standard post-rock gear and ethnic instruments.

Tagged: getting into a serious thinggod is dead