• the Ancient Storm

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  Selling some of my artist copies of the Ancient Storm from Steve Shelley's Vampire Blues label. Album features super weird art from Robert Beatty. It has some of my favorite pretty Spectre Folk studio tunes on the A side. It was recorded at the legendary Sonic Youth studio Echo Canyon west. Good times were had by all.
  
  Album review from: soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/albums/Spectre_Folk_The_Ancient_Storm.shtml
  
  "The Ancient Storm is the first release on Steve Shelley’s new label (a re-vamp – ahem! – of his Smells Like Records project) and ‘slow-burning psych-folk’ is the best way to describe this stoner’s friend of a debut record. Shelley – wonderfully understated on drums throughout - is joined by Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs, Hallogallo), Peter Meehan (who, in addition to music, is also a food writer) and Magik Markers’ drummer and multi-instrumentalist Pete Nolan for six tracks of narcotised guitar jams and improvised songwriting.
  
  ‘Inchin’ Worm’ is a brilliant 70s-sounding droney ballad (“droney” here being the finest compliment) wafted on gorgeous swaying rhythms while the 15-minute ‘Knife’ has an eight-minute fuse of fizzing rhythms and noise-oceans that explodes just after the halfway mark into guitar fireworks worthy of the Challenger Space Shuttle’s last ride. The instrumental ‘Gypsy Grammar’ feels like it’s doffing a cap at the American guitar primitivists while ‘Please Come Home’ is the nearest thing Spectre Folk have to a pop song, slipping into a gentle tropical groove.
  
  You shouldn’t operate heavy machinery and motor vehicles while under the influence of this music but it will transport you anyway to some of the more interesting corners of modern American alt-rock.
  
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