Locrian - Drenched Lands

First full-length studio album from one of the most consistently good bands around today, Chicago's Locrian. Drenched Lands is a beautifully thought-out piece of music, from a gentle guitar strum/synth opening (not a million miles away from Culver/Earth "Pentastar"-era territory) which cuts out abruptly just as you're becoming entirely engrossed, only to give way to an epic cavernous drone. The whole thing brings to mind some sort of disused industrial factory or barren post-apocalyptic landscape. Dark tones, noise, keys and the odd well-placed guitar strum combine brilliantly to evoke feeling of desolation, loss, a submission of will... it's almost like the logical conclusion of Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack; almost tangiential in sound to Earth's "Hex" record.

Comes in a fold-out printed Stumptown "Arigato Pack" with full-colour 4-page booklet.

Tracklist:
1. Obsolete Elegy In Effluvia And Dross (2:09)
2. Ghost Repeater (10:36)
3. Barren Temple Obscured By Contaminated Fogs (6:11)
4. Epicedium (8:30)
5. Obsolete Elegy In Cast Concrete (6:50)
6. Greyfield Shrines (Version) (30:10)