Crucial Blast

Excellent spankin'-new full length private-press disc from Housepig, who never fail us in quality heavy abstraction. Sky Burial is an offshoot project of Michael Page from Massachusetts harsh noise outfit Fire In The Head, who lays down 6 meaty jams of heavy cyclic drone crush that starts off with a great hazy blurr of layered feedback loops and angelic sunlit drones, as whirring electronics and neverending melted melodies pinwheel in the light, propelled by heavy drum machine beats sounding akin to recent Skullflower output fueled with Godflesh -style percussive might, or soaring over heavilly processed, almost dub-like industrial ryhthms. Sooo beautiful and majestic. Some of this reaches Final levels of density with the sort of harmonic overload that Justin Broadrick has been drowning his recent music in, and Sky Burial even drops some druggy shoegazer swirl with tracks like "Distant Dissonance Disappearing", a thoroughly melted blast of heart-rendingly gorgeous angel voices and blurred melody, like a cassette tape of My Bloody valentine's Loveless that's been left in the sun for too long. Elsewhere, Sky Burial delves into pointilist guitars, dark cavernous low-end drones, blurred and battered underwater casio
beats, and tons of shimmering, shifting, beautiful hum. Definitely situated between the heavy sunkissed power drones of Skullflower, Sunroof!, and Vibracathedral Orchestra, the gooey basement dreamsludge of The Goslings, as well as serious dark ambient like Lustmord and the pulsating free noise of Bower's Hototogisu. Really, fans of Skullflower will lose their shit over this. You get six long tracks in 46 minutes, and the disc comes with a silkscreened cd face, packaged in a swank silkscreened handsewn heavy canvas pouch. Limited edition of 150 copies, so move quickly. Very recommended.