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The Grails - Burning Off Impurities
The basic gist seems to be soundtrack music for a film set on a caravan through the desert. "Soft Temple" especially seems set to the rhythm of plodding camels, though the Indian-influences leads and various scenes of the song add more color than most. "More Extinction" and "Drawn Curtains" are less assertive and not very varied. "Silk Road" is more suggestive of a chase, but the one hook take the track very far. The droning raga "Dead Vine Blues" and dramatically dynamic "Origining" are the most guitar-driven, but the space-rock jam "Outer Banks" is the best moment of the album. The album definitely explores various eastern influences, but in this departure is a welcome one. The ending title song returns to the album's comfort zone and certainly sets a cinematic scene we've seen before.
The basic gist seems to be soundtrack music for a film set on a caravan through the desert. "Soft Temple" especially seems set to the rhythm of plodding camels, though the Indian-influences leads and various scenes of the song add more color than most. "More Extinction" and "Drawn Curtains" are less assertive and not very varied. "Silk Road" is more suggestive of a chase, but the one hook take the track very far. The droning raga "Dead Vine Blues" and dramatically dynamic "Origining" are the most guitar-driven, but the space-rock jam "Outer Banks" is the best moment of the album. The album definitely explores various eastern influences, but in this departure is a welcome one. The ending title song returns to the album's comfort zone and certainly sets a cinematic scene we've seen before.
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