Release Date: 22 November 2024
Label: Hausu Mountain
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457193086
Genres: Indie Alternative
Release Date: 22 November 2024
Label: Hausu Mountain
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457193086
Genres: Indie Alternative
The album presents a band whose collective intuition as instrumentalists and live-in-the-room songwriters has deepened with each take that they put to tape. Prayer in Dub finds Body Metta taking up new experiments with song structure and atmosphere, fanning out into a wide menu of both longer and more concise pieces that suggest deliberate shifts in energy and emotional resonance. The album presents a thrilling contrast between storms of precise rhythmic interplay and slowly expanding fields of multi-guitar and bass texture, alternately pushing the narrative toward explosive peaks of intensity and dipping into ambient expanses.
Contemplative guitar lines, both bone dry and effected into total abstraction, ripple together over dub-indebted rhythm section grooves before shifting the dial towards beatific twang. Knotty distorted solos surge out of the fray over networks of arpeggios and drum fills. On Prayer in Dub, Body Metta pursues a strain of euphoria charged with elegiac grandeur and the looming potential to crumble at any moment under the psychic weight of confusion. It speaks to the band's goals and general outlook that chaos never completely consumes their sessions.
The band channels the kinetic energy of a "supergroup" of veteran musicians into communal works that evolve beyond their creators' extensive pedigrees into new forms both intimate in sentiment and majestic in scope.