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Royal Headache - self-titled (album)

The Mariner’s Children - Sycamore EP

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The Fall - Sir William Wray 7"

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Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man 7”

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Eternal Tapestry
A World Out of Time Thrill Jockey

Article written by Michael H - Oct 21, 2012

‘A World out of Time’ arrives soon after Eternal Tapestry’s previous album, the set of psychedelicious brain jams that was 'Dawn in 2 Dimensions'. No less loose limbed than its predecessor, this release does, however, benefit from being recorded as a whole rather than gathered together from stacks of accumulated tapes. It has a sense of directness that ‘Dawn…’ lacked.

The words ‘psych jam band’ have until now usually conjured visions of wasted Vietnam veterans sliding out of bed in seedy motel rooms but this album has expanded my, admittedly limited, knowledge of the genre. The songs are genuinely exploratory, they chip away at an idea until it frays and becomes something else; at no point do the band collectively disappear up themselves. Take, for example, ‘Alone against Tomorrow’, where the noodling guitar and scattered drumming eventually coalesce into a white light ascension. ‘The Weird Stone’ is even better; initially, a blurry eyed mess of tense and tangled melodic lines backlit by a stalking rhythm section; it becomes, over seven minutes, a brilliantly involving progression into a echoing darkness, illuminated solely by phosphorescent guitar solos. Apart, from ‘Apocalypse Troll’, which is perilously close to being an Iron Butterfly song, and even here is rescued by its melting candle non-structure, the rest of the album is admirable in its restraint, everything seems to lead somewhere, Eternal Tapestry never merely mess around for a few minutes and then bring the lights back up with a “that’s your lot, I’m afraid” fadeout. The album closes with the wistfully lazy, late afternoon, summertime park boozing of ‘Sand into Rain’; concluding ‘A World out of Time’ in an entirely satisfying haze.

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http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Eternal-Tapestry/
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http://www.myspace.com/eternaltapestry