Mars Red Sky – Be My Guide

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2. Seen A Ghost
3. Clean White Hands
4. Stranger
“The EP is four tracks of gorgeous, fuzzed-out heavy psychedelia. It’s worth noting though that “” isn’t a full-length, despite its everybody-come-along tendencies, and that the goals it’s working toward are different. You could probably listen to “”, the song, right into “Seen A Ghost” without thinking twice about it, but once the full stomp of the second track takes hold after the circular groove of the introduction, it’s apparent that the band aren’t just nestling themselves into a formula. Pras echoes deep in the mix behind his guitar and Kinast’s bass, but after about a minute and a half, they jump into a sudden start-stop cadence that meets with overlaying psychedelic layers of vocals, the stark rhythmic chug of the verse standing in striking contrast to the fullness of “” before it and “Clean White Hands” to follow on the EP’s second side.”
“What the songs have in common ‘ and why it still works ‘ is tone and groove, so that when “Seen A Ghost” moves into its dreamy midsection, although more than just the drummer has changed, the track never stops making sense. Because they manage to strike this balance in under half an hour and because they maintain the sun-baked warmth of tone, “” is a fitting response to the establishing facets of ‘s previous full-length (have I mentioned it yet?) and I find after repeat listening that I’m all the more hopeful for how these experiments and developments might play out over the course of their next LP.”
All That Is Heavy, The Obelisk
LP album
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