Celestiial - Desolate North
March 20 2008 at 08:44:02 PM
Celestiial, T.R. Anderson’s “funeral doom” project, is an odd one.Keys, electronics; processed guitar, drums, vocals, and a whole host of “field sounds” combine to make an intriguing sounding record that comes off in a wholly banal listening experience. Despite the fervent hawking of Desolate North as some sort of invocation of the woodland pulse—whatever that means—the record rarely goes beyond the type of thing that one would expect to be playing in some “New Age” stronghold where all sorts of white magic minutiae, geodes, and incense are available for purchase. Anderson’s Celestiial would benefit heartily from a little less ambition, production, and persistence in melding organic with the inorganic, but then it would cease to be. And perhaps that’s a good thing.
[Stewart Voegtlin]
Celestiial
Desolate North
2006
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