They say if you remember the 60s, then you weren’t really there. Well, for those who either weren’t there, who, for various reasons, were and can’t remember it, and especially for those of us too young to have experienced those times, Light The Insense is for you. Why? Because it sounds like the sixties distilled into one song, well, what I imagine the sixties to have sounded like (I don’t know for sure; I wasn’t there), at least the drug-fug, incense-rich, zoned-out, dark, edgy and underground side of that decade.
Guitars starkly descend to create an exquisite riff. An almost funereal beat drives things along, sombre and unfussy. The vocals are ritualistic-sounding in their delivery. The whole thing makes for a dense and claustrophobic sonic experience, not to mention a hazy and lysergic vibe.
Light The Incense is slow and sensual, dark and delicious, creating its impact not through anything as cliche or coarse as volume or velocity but through its cocooning and almost mystical qualities.
This is not the product of ordinary musicians; this is the work of sonic shamans, I’m sure of it.
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