Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 18/11/2016
Label: At War With False Noise
“Projections
I” track listing
1)…Does
Not Equal time
2).
Practical Mental Effects
3).
Church of the Fifth Season
4).
The Map is Not the Territory
The Review:
Headless
Kross
play psych doom and hail from Glasgow Scotland. It's bleak enough up there for
this storming four track record to be wholly convincing. Long songs, deep
grooves, tortured vocals... all present and correct. I can only hope that they
took their name from the underrated and hard to find Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath album,
which I have been playing a lot recently.
The
eight minutes plus of “Does Not Equal
Time” takes in doom, sludge, stoner and psych to brew a heady mixture of
those four genres. The rest of the album does not disappoint and shows that the
band come fully formed and ready to go; the slow burn of “Practical Mental Effects”, the centrepiece of “Church of The Fifth Season” sprawls out over ten minutes- albeit with
several of those minutes filled with samples and not riffs. “The
Map is Not the Territory” is a
lengthy crawl through the combined genres darker areas and hits home hard.
It's
easy to sum up: if you are a fan of sludge/doom/psych/stoner or think that you
might love to hear a record that combines all those together effectively, this
record is certainly for you. Dark.
