Hotel Wrecking City Traders are Australia’s answer to bands like The Cosmic Dead or Hey Colossus: big, brash #psychedelic #rock madness that gets seriously #heavy without taking itself too seriously. #PassagetoAgarthais their first #double #album, and they use the extra space to #travel to #space. Double LP on Cardinal #Fuzz and #Evil Hoodoo. From the opening track ‘#Quasar’ the #band launch into their trademark big sound and really just kick it from the beginning. This is a #massive track that really just nails it as an overture to something big. You don’t need to listen to the rest of the album to appreciate that it is going to be a monster because ‘Quasar’ is the sonic equivalent of an invading army ransacking a walled city, crumbling the defenses of the mind with its pace and relentless attack of #fuzz. It’s #weirdto be convinced that 80 minutes of #music is going to be spot on, but ‘Quasar’ pretty much tells you to buckle down… it’s going to be one #hell of a #ride.
If anything things get heavier with ‘Kanged Cortex’, a massive deep riffed monster that does more than just chug along but, like a lot of this album, contains some nuance too. Yeah it’s another sonic attack on, well, your central cortex, but there’s also brief respites to the assault, moments of clarity that have a lightness to them which only go to accentuate the heavy sections. There are also moments to this near twelve minute epic when you just find yourself lost in the music as you tune into the track before it goes off on one again. Well that’s side one and you already feel as if you’ve had your face melted, which is why the lighter beginning of ‘Chasing the Tendrils’ comes as something of a welcome relief. Here the band are finding new ways of stretching and expanding their sound, to good effect. At around the four minute mark the #fuzz #thrusters start kicking in again and you really feel ready to hit the go button again, this album is a marathon not a sprint and as such it’s about the journey much more than where you end up at the end.
With ‘Chasing the Tendrils’ this is a seventeen minute sonic adventure that continues to change and surprise in ways that I’m not sure Hotel Wrecking City Traders have done before. The drop into effects and feedback at around seven minutes in feels ominous and chilling, well beyond the fuzzy psych riffs of yore. Then… gradually… they pick up the pace again in a section that is perhaps my favourite of the album as the band channel their inner #BlackSabbath through a spaced out #minimalist filter, letting it act as a fuse for what you know is going to be some unholy explosion at some unspecified point during the remainder of the album. There is something about every track of this sprawling 80 minute epic journey into the Earth that, in different ways, shows that Hotel Wrecking City Traders are a band that are moving forward. While the theme of the album suggests introversion this is an album that is also spacey with expansive themes, perhaps exploring more #psychological #inner #journeys as much of #spacerockoften does. Whatever the case is here, the band have certainly expanded their #sound and #show a greater confidence in bringing out a set of #music that is so long and yet keeps you going throughout.
Review by Simon https://psychinsightmusic.com/2017/09...
1. Quasar
2. Kanged Cortex
3. Chasing the Tendrils
4. Passage to #Agartha
5. Ohms of the Cavern Current
6. Oroshi
2. Kanged Cortex
3. Chasing the Tendrils
4. Passage to #Agartha
5. Ohms of the Cavern Current
6. Oroshi
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