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Album info
With two tracks clocking in at just under 40 minutes, Sonic Prayer is a molten mass of psychedelic guitar dirge, calling out the ghosts of Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer. Guitarist Isaiah Mitchell has been here before with the feedback-laced, wah-wah enhanced, hard rock-leaning Nebula, but with Earthless, he ditches conventional song-structure entirely. Instead, he uses the monumental beat kicked out by Clikitat Ikatowi and Hot Snakes’ Mario Rubalcaba, and given slippery, heavy resonance by bass player Mike Eginton (ex-Electric Nazarene), to build pillowing waves of sonic sculpture — now mesmeric circles, now knife-sharp bursts, now flame-licking explosions of electric guitar sound.
The album opens with “Flower Travelin’ Man”, a nod to Japanese heavy psych-ists Flower Travellin’ Band, its lone drumbeat pilfered from Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. The drums are met by pulse of bass and squalling, dopplering howls of feedback. The guitar can be heard behind the white noise, indistinctly, until it takes center stage about a minute and a half in. The riff is simple, heavy, inevitable, anchoring, allowing for swirls and eddies of ax-burning solo and explosive bursts of cacophonous drums. While the piece is in no way a song, it offers enough thematic development and compositional logic to hold your interest throughout its 17 minute run. “Lost in the Cold Sun” is even better, its murky circular guitar line a looser, more Eastern-filtered “Crystal Planet”, easily overpowering the apocalyptic siren noises in the background. The central riff fractures and frays, throwing off Hendrix-like squalls and tortured slides, heavy tom and cymbal crashes tethering Mitchell to the beat. You’ll hear intermittent bits of sludgy Sabbath riffs, sweet viscous fragments of Brian May, wanky shreds and So Cal drones — yet the piece has its own structure and progression. It may have been improvised — indeed, that seems very likely — but if so, it was done with a shared vision and discipline. This is wonderful stuff — not as experimental as Acid Mothers Temple or Circle, but a step or two out there from Comets on Fire. It won’t jump out of the stereo the first time, but repeat listens will make it smoke.
Tracklist
01 – Flower Travelin’ Man
02 – Lost in the Cold Sun