Six Organs Of Admittance-Shelter From The Ash

Six Organs Of Admittance-Shelter From The Ash

Psych meltdowns and intimate folk introspection from Ben Chasny and pals. Sometime Comets On Fire guitarist Chasny's Six Organs franchise is becoming а hardy perennial, issuing intense, ambitious albums on an annual basis. 5helrer From The Ash follows last year's sun Awakens and 2005's School0f The Flower - another impressive cocktail of Easterninflected drones, mantra-like vocals and thick slabs of empyrean noise guitar. Opener Alone With The A1one's solitary Е minor chord comes laced with e-bow hums, Robbie Basho-like raga extemporisations and, later, molten lava floes of electric guitar, while the less feral but equally potent strangled Road finds Chasny rummaging in the psychic backwoods while rainy acoustic guitars thrum and fiancёe E1isa Ambroglio (of noiseniks the Magik Markers) lends sensual vocal counterpoint. The darkly contagious title track, meanwhile, sounds like а dreamy psych-folk makeover of Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper, and everywhere а subtly numinous quality pervades. David Sheppard