Horseback, "Veil of Maya (The Lamb Takes the Lion)" =>"A High Ashen Breeze [Part I]" (Forbidden Planet, 2010; reissued with Impale Golden Horn [2007] as The Gorgon Tongue, 2011).
Interesting that this is pared with their début, which is more of a post-rock/drone thing, when this, while instrumentally similar, is a fair bit darker and harsher with some bestial metal vocals. Good stuff.
I am liking this album a lot more as an adult than I did as a callow youth, although I'm not going to pretend that everything here clicks for me. This is still neo-prog dusted with Santana worship, but I can vibe with that more now than I could when my tastes were more narrowly anti-pop, and the psychedelic experimental touches stick out far more to me now. Ironically, I do wish that the guitar theatrics and weird un-hip genre asides were more upfront in places; "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" gets a little tedious in places for its relative dearth of melodrama and bizarre digressions until the very end. "L'Via L'Viaquez", on the other hand, is just delightfully ludicrous.
The Mars Volta, "Cassandra Gemini" (Frances The Mute, 2005).
OK, this song is truly fantastic. All thirty-two minutes of it. Kudos to you, Omar and company, making the longest song on the album the best, and the last.
I am liking this album a lot more as an adult than I did as a callow youth, although I'm not going to pretend that everything here clicks for me. This is still neo-prog dusted with Santana worship, but I can vibe with that more now than I could when my tastes were more narrowly anti-pop, and the psychedelic experimental touches stick out far more to me now. Ironically, I do wish that the guitar theatrics and weird un-hip genre asides were more upfront in places; "Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus" gets a little tedious in places for its relative dearth of melodrama and bizarre digressions until the very end. "L'Via L'Viaquez", on the other hand, is just delightfully ludicrous.
hey now, nothing wrong with a little Santana worship.
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