Ulaan Khol – I
Bleak as hell new run of distortion ritual from the endlessly fascinating Steven R. Smith. The Soft Abuse write up hits it when it says “Fushitsusha and High Rise with Popul Vuh and Flying Saucer Attack”, but I like to keep in mind that Smith is a L.A. resident, and that, for me, really brings it home. If you’ve seen the city at night, then you know what I’m talking about. For sure the heaviest pro-psych, stoned-out work we’ve heard from Smith, although you could draw some comparisons to ‘Crown Of Marches’ from a couple of years back, but with way more electric noir and a few mainline organ/percussion blow outs. Apparently the first in a proposed 3 part series entitled ‘Ceremony’… if the other two run as deep into mountains of phase & feedback fuzz as this disc then the whole thing is just gonna be MASSIVE. Pick it up over at Soft Abuse.