Winter Contemplations

Winter ContemplationsSoul Dissolution is a three piece from Belgium. If you took some Agalloch and a pinch of Lantls, and put it in a blender with a cup of Winterfylleth and a tablespoon of Fen that's about the flavor of a Soul Dissolution smoothie. And as chilly as that might sound, there is an unbelievable warmth to these two tracks. A lovely twenty four minutes of exploratory texture and heaviness, indeed

a double album containing 22 tracks: it took no less than that to accommodate the flow of ideas which arose after such a long gap

and Bruxax's 'Scream' is a full-on sludge metal freak-out that could sit alongside a Rob Zombie movie

Right from the time The Chicks hatched out of New Zealand's fertile rock'n'roll scene

Guest spots from Bun B

Layer On Layer was the beginning of David's investigations into rhythm

The guitarist's Fearless Flyers bandmate

a decade later

but Captain recorded some great stuff on his 8-track where I had recorded Johnny "live" and handed over a tape for him to work with ('I'm a Spasm'

Akalé Wubé invited Manu Dibango on their track Anbessa (The Lion in Amharic) composed as a tribute to him

deluxe rigid card box with artwork printed on holographic foil

the album is a kaleidoscope of ideas

highlighting cracks rather than hiding them