By: Richard Maw
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 20/05/2016
Label: Ripple
Music
Stoner, psychedelia, doom and classic rock all coalesce here with
massive results. Only one track under five minutes, the rest sprawling
languidly well over that mark. Hendrix jamming with Fu Manchu and Sabbath¸ simply
put, this is storming stuff; wrought from the heaviest of iron and the lightest
of air. Massive.
“Midnight Cometh” CD//DD//LP track
listing:
1). There’s Something Sinister in the Wind
2). Riffborn
3). Of Smoke and Fog
4). Le Dilemme de Detenu
5). Three Minutes to Midnight
6). Nightcomer
The Review:
Wo Fat return, ten years on from their
debut with this thundering and groovy beast. Stoner, psychedelia, doom and
classic rock all coalesce here with massive results. Only one track under five
minutes, the rest sprawling languidly well over that mark. Hendrix
jamming with Fu Manchu and Sabbath
is a starting point, I guess.
The
likes of “Riffborn” (apt!) and “Of Smoke and Fog” are huge, crushing
and full of head nodding grooves (with
some cowbell here and there). “Three
Minutes to Midnight” represents the more metal end of the band's spectrum
with some serious fuzz to the sound. Records like this are somewhat difficult
to review; all tracks are uniformly good, production excellent and ironically
nothing therefore stands out. Suffice it to say that if you enjoy Karma to Burn or any of the bands mentioned above, then you
will enjoy this.
Certainly,
this Dallas outfit are masters of their craft; shifting seamlessly through the
gears and creating stoner-ish vibes one minute and seriously weighty riffage
the next. Thus, when closer “Nightcomer”
arrives the groove and riffs are thick, but not at all out of place. Simply
put, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this record as much as I did on first
listen... and it has only got better with each subsequent play. This is
storming stuff; wrought from the heaviest of iron and the lightest of air.
Massive.
“Midnight Cometh” is available here
