[.ca] Amanita

impossible to articulate.....:
i think this CD has only one other review, which is a shame. i can only hope that many people do actually know and love this music, but may be too "pharmacologically-challenged" to get their thoughts out. the music draws you in and keeps you there, and then stays with you days after it is over. it works best when played at very high volume, and with no articifical lights on. try their other stuff, too. if you like jessamine or flying saucer attack, you will proabably like this as well.

Swirling nebulae of lint deep in the hollow of my navel...:
The dopest shoegazer extravaganza yet, topped only by their concurrent contribution to Drunken Fish records' "Harmony of the Spheres" box. I have gotten lost in this album for days at a time, utterly unable to find my way out of the roiling, chittering labyrinths which Isobel's vocals and flute spin around those churning masses of concrete-supersaturated-with-electric-geetar. And just think: if Herod had had a copy, there wouldn't be any Christians today. Too bad.

Sounds like the psychoactive mushroom it was named after:
While I haven't yet found a Bardo Pond album that I haven't enjoyed, Amanita tends to be my favorite. The singer, Isobel, mumbles and moans semi-coherently, her voice all but swallowed up by the thick/heavy/sludgy mass of guitars oozing around it. Listening to it brings a mental image of stumbling around a darkened room in a hallucinatory swoon. Compelling and delirious psychedelia that wraps you up in it's warm cocoon and leaves you reeling.

• Limerick
• Sentence
• Tantric Porno
• Wank
• High Frequency
• Sometimes Words
• Yellow Turban
• Rumination
• Be a Fish
• Tapir Song
• RM