By: Victor Van Ommen
Album Type: Full Length
Date Released: 24/06/2016
Label: Small Stone Records
No vocals, just a lot of stoned, smoky
repetition that is equally spiritual as it is absolutely mind blowing.
“Our Birth is But A Sleeping
and A Forgetting” CD//DD//LP tack listing:
1). Nada Brahma
2). The Beard of Macroprosopus
3). Across The Luster of the Desert into the
Polychrome Hills
4). Starry Wisdom
5). Pillars in the Void
6). The Black Iron Prison and the Palm Tree Garden
The Review:
New York three piece It’s Not Night: It’s
Space are set to release their new album, “Our Birth is But A Sleep and A Forgetting” on June 24th.
We here at The Sludgelord have been offered to host a
stream of this album, which if you dig in and press play, you’ll understand
that we couldn’t turn this offer down. So roll up and get comfy, we’re going
for a ride.
The mélange of audio samples that greet the listener
are of speeches that range in theme from politics, drugs, and philosophy. Slow,
sparse strums on a steel string acoustic guitar weave in and out of a deep
electric drone, and as the song builds, it also fades into the next chapter of
“Our Birth is But A Sleep and A
Forgetting.” You better buckle up, because this album needs to be taken in
with one deep drag, because there’s little time between the cuts to catch your
breath.
The jam starts with a zany guitar riff in “The Beard of Macroprosopus” that twists
blindly through a mass of background drone and a hard hitting rhythm that,
though slow, lacks nothing in heft. It’s abundantly clear that It’s Not Night: It’s Space have taken flight. No vocals,
just a lot of stoned, smoky repetition that is equally spiritual as it is
absolutely mind blowing.
The story goes that the band wrote these songs “in
moldy warehouses, grimy basements, and dusty backrooms of pizza shops,”
and I must admit, you hear those settings in these seven
songs. For example, the dark, effect laden riffs in “Across The Luster of the Desert into the Polychrome Hills” conjure up hallucinations of dark, dank
atmospheres that are as comfortable as they are frightening. The steady groove
in “Starry Wisdom” is the
sound of a band finding sweet release in making an absolute raucous in a
basement tucked far away from society. After all, this might be the only place
in the city where a band can make this much noise without having the fuzz being
called on them.
Made up of guitarist Kevin Halcott, drummer Michael
Lutomski and bassist Tommy Guerroro, these boys from the East Coast have gone
and done something that many stoner rock bands can only dream of; It’s Not Night: It’s Space present themselves as an entity.
These three guys have locked in and met each other on a musical plane far
removed from the mindless riffing that’s flooding our little niche. The guys in
It’s Not Night: It’s Space communicate with each other
through their jams. Though the cuts on this album may be songs that the band
wrote before hitting the studio, it’s audible in the recording that the band
caught a moment instead of a performance. If you’re into that
kind of thing, you’ll definitely be into “Our
Birth is But A Sleep and A Forgetting.” Enjoy!
“Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting.” Is available here and you can stream it in full below
“Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting.” Is available here and you can stream it in full below
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