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A A A Comments By Chuck Eddy Tuesday, Apr 18 2006

Since the Om album only has two songs totaling under 34 minutes, you're perfectly welcome to classify that thing and the 40-minute, one-song Everlovely Lightningheart album as singles instead—both definitions fit both records, though oddly neither has enough tracks for an EP. Om's first track features a monotoned vocal-as-pulse that I associate more with Underworld's "Born Slippy" than with, say, Can or Hawkwind, evidence that much current metal (even unsynthesized stuff) might owe as much to techno as to rock. The Everlovely one has ever-lovely medieval lute-like spaces and quasi-tribal oil-barrel rituals and war-whooping and rocket-whooshing luring you into an ending that lasts way too long. But you're probably supposed to be asleep by then.

They had a better drummer then.

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COVENANT
Skyshaper
(Metropolis Swedish darkwave industrial-danced "electronic body music" album
Stream "Pulse" (Windows Media)
Stream "The Men" (Windows Media)

DARSOMBRA
Ecdysis
(At A Loss ambient thrash album)
Download "Thinning The Herd" (Windows Media)

EVERLOVELY LIGHTNINGHEART
Cusp
(Hydra Head eternal ambient drone-sludge album
Stream "Cusp" (Windows Media)

KEN
Stop! Look! Sing Songs of Revolution
(Metropolis electropopped dance-oriented new wave rock album)
Stream "If" (Windows Media)
Stream "Ashes" (Windows Media)

LAZY FARMER
Lazy Farmer
(Sunbeam '70s British folk reissue)
Stream "Railroad Boy" (Windows Media)
Stream "Love Song" (Windows Media)

MUSHROOM
Really Don't Mind if You Sit This One Out
(Four Zero live improvisatory psychedelic-drone jazz-rock album)
Stream "Pink Island" (Windows Media)

NO NECK BLUES BAND AND EMBRYO
EmbryoNNCK
(Staubgold half-German improvisatory psychedelic-drone jazz-rock album)
Stream "Five Grams of the Widow" (Windows Media)
Download "Frank Cologne" (Windows Media)

OM
Conference of the Birds
(Holy Mountain eternal ambient drone-metal album)

SONIC YOUTH
Sonic Youth
(Geffen '80s half-life post-no-wave art-punk reissue)
Stream "I Dreamed I Dream" (Windows Media)
Stream "She Is Not Alone" (Windows Media)

ST 37
Future Memories
(Four/Four '80s–'00s pyschedelic art-metal reissue)

VOLCANO THE BEAR
Classic Erasmus Fusion
(Beta-Lactum Ring two-disc freak-rock album)
Download "Did You Ever Feel Like Jesus" (Windows Media)
Download "Russian Milk" (Windows Media)

WIR SIND HELDEN
"Von Hier an Blind"
(Virgin German dance-pop single)
Stream "Von Hier an Blind" (Windows Media)

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