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OM God Is Good LP

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(Drag City)
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With their first album for new label Drag City Al Cisneros and Om continued to explore the sort of bass-heavy drone rock that they first developed on 2005's Variations On A Theme, further evolving the sort of deep, hypnotic reveries that Cisneros had previously produced while playing with the seminal stoner/sludge metal band Sleep. While previous Om records featured the Sleep rhythm section of Cisneros and drummer Chris Haikus, God Is Good would be the first Om album to come out after Haikus's departure from the group, and features new drummer Emil Amos, a member of post rockers Grails and midnight psychedelic ensemble Master Musicians Of Bukkake. Everyone wondered if Amos would be able to match Haikus's formidable rhythms and power, but his performance on this album silenced any doubters, delivering the solid rhythmic foundation and spaciousness this music requires, while also offering some almost jazzy playing that expands nicely on the Om sound. Also expanding the bands sound is the addition of other instruments to some of these songs, adding sitar, tamboura, tabla and piano, expertly used to add further color to Om's throbbing shamanic crunch-trance. Entering in on a soft cloudbed of druggy, droning sitar-like tamboura buzz, opener "Thebes" slowly drifts in with the clean, undistorted sound of the bass guitar curling its riffs in slow motion, soft minor key figures forming and circling around this shadowy drug-haze. For nearly twenty minutes the band explores this subdued hypnotic sound, early on focusing just on that elliptical bass guitar and smears of distorted buzz as Cisneros creeps in with his somnambulant chant-like vocals, almost whispering at times while cello and piano join in; as his vocals grow stronger and more dominant and the words start to evoke visions of ancient Mediterranean cities and sun-worship, the drummer crafts hypnotic hand-drum rhythms and slow-moving percussion. And then the distorted hypno-riffage drops in, and the song transforms in an instant into the sort of narcotized sludgy heaviness we've been waiting for, a monstrous serpentine riff and pounding drums interlocking into a slithering head-nodding groove that stretches out across the remainder of the song, with that classic Sleep sound echoing through the duo's lumbering psych-crush. The other three songs are shorter and more succinct; "Meditation Is The Practice Of Death" features another serpentine bass groove laid over Amos's complex, expressive drumming, the riff coated in sticky hashish residue and the dust of a Persian market, huge and droning and utterly trance inducing. Amos gets a lot more complex with his playing on this song, filling the space with lots of intricate rolls and processional rhythms and some heavily reverbed snare sounds that give this a really heavy dub feel. The flute that joins in towards the end takes over with a haunting melody that winds all around the sludgy groove. The last two tracks on God Is Good make up the two-part "Cremation Ghat", and it's something quite different from the previous material. Starting up with a heavy rhythmic backbone of hand-claps and quick, pounding hand drum rhythms, the bass darts around this almost ritualistic sound as distant keening ululations and moaning chants emerge, the sound building into this feverish rhythmic cadence that loops around and around. The second part veers into a more subdued groove as that buzzing tamboura reappears, the hypnotic patterns of the tabla merging with slower doom-laden drumming, that cello coming back to spin another eerie Middle Eastern-style melody around this dreamlike psychedelia, returning to the somber tone that opened the album. Compared to the previous albums, God Is Good does feel like a less aggressive approach to Om's sound, but there's plenty of moments of distorted crunch to keep fans of their older work satisfied. It's also one of their shortest records at just over half and hour, but fans of Om's metronomic, heavy trance-rock should have no problem flipping this over and replaying it again and again.. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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