POCAHAUNTED "PEYOTE ROAD" (WOODSIST012) ---->
Debut full- length LP. Edition of 500
"Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century's
chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for
the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock,
CA's Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still
like
that, and so spent all of '07 throwing ever weirder new figures and
moods
into their amplifier family, and "Peyote Road" shows the motion of
their
transformation agenda. The A side ritual, "Divine Flesh," stirs hand
drums
and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before
breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip
side
("Heroic Doses") documents Pocahaunted's set opening for Thurston Moore
on
Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert
town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies'
blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones,
and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void.
With tribal-psychedelia collage jacket artwork by Owl Eyes."- NNF
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