| CD REVIEW Husky |
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Band : Husky With 8 tracks inspired by 35007, Kinski, Allman Bros, Mogwai, Tortoise and Ry Cooder this North Carolina trio Husky provide a damn good album. The sound of the music ranges from ambient trippy to steadily driving, but it keeps the same atmospheric, eerie-soundtrack quality throughout. Beautiful and endearing. The songs range in length from around one minute with off we go track “Drunkard” to 11-minutes with my favorite track “Aboard the relic” But The Sea King shouldbe listened to as a whole, for indeed, it is a concept album, revolving around the largest vessel ever built in Maine ‘the Sea King’. The opening wash of the waves, the bell and the organs, guitars coming up in the background would sweep the listener away on a wonderful journey around the globe. “Flagship” is a masterpiece of psychedelic drone, guitars and electronic effects merging into a potent whole creating a natural high. With a pounding beat and throbbing electronics, “Mayans vs martians” is scorching. “Aboard the relic” and “Red right returning” is a turn for the heavier with meatier licks and a thicker rhythm section that has bit more rage and muscle to them, “Trading on high seas” is however, a very smooth ride, metamorphosing slowly over its nine minute length with tremendous subtlety. It's a hypnotic and soothing piece..”Leeward and easy” is the last track. Four minutes of slow, lazy blues groove with windecho laid over the top. The fuzz guitars kick-in and it all goes a bit Monkey 3, and our sea voyage is drawing to a close now as ‘the Sea King’ sunk in a bad storm. Using a flow of music that resembles the ebbs and tides of the shores the sea king anchored during its 40-year service, the wash of music is constantly shifting throughout the album,I suppose what Husky excels best at would be tasteful, simple, expressive songwriting that doesn't include any wasted notes. 95/100 Cosmicmasseur. |