Atavist - II: Ruined

This whole Do-Yrself-A-Favor-Kill-Yrself thing was instantaneously stale and the only sloooooow (grazie, AQ) band that’s made me stop and stare in the past five years—other than the sadly defunct Khanate—is the sadly defunct Otesanek. But I digress… So war-drummer Jamie Sykes is gone and we’ve got seven songs that sound like some fidgety reworkings of the admittedly stellar s/t. “Dropping the needle” at random on this one yields varying results. Track six, a sort of Arvo Part meets The Teeth of Lions, etc. is indeed a tasty morsel, but the rest of the program is just a bunch of mimetic echoes with a few flashes of “Look, Ma, I’m Bootsykronos”—with track three being a quaint little fucking “homage” to Sunn O))), Inc.’s “Richard.” Make of it what you will.

[Stewart Voegtlin]

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