Many thanks to Pitchfork and Grayson Currin for this wide-ranging & whip-smart 8.0 Mind Over Mirrors Bellowing Sun review:

“8.0. A sci-fi symphony… a complex and beautiful synth-and-drone time warp. Bellowing Sun feels delightfully out of time with the rest of the world. Its length and complex structure dare our shrinking attention spans to fight the pull of Twitter timelines and breaking news, to lean into the present. Its power forces the issue. And its interdisciplinary approach to genre and form push firmly against our propensity for silos, finding unexpected connections in unlikely places. This is ecstatic hillbilly krautrock raga drone—with celestial vocals and a drummer who loves to rattle the room—built to be played in a modern art museum beneath a spinning phosphorescent orb. Despite all that, or maybe because of it, this is one of the decade’s true experimental wonders.”

– Grayson Currin, Pitchfork

 

Read the full review here.

Thanks as well to Bill Meyer and the folks at Dusted for their kind assessment of Bellowing Sun: “It is the most expansive expression to date of an aesthetic that is inspired by a reverence for nature and imparts a non-prescriptive, spiritual experience. It is by turns as stilling as a gaze at an oceanic horizon, as remote as an unmapped Appalachian hollow, and as bracing and immersive as a winter gale.” Get the full scoop here.

 

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Watch the video for “Matchstick Grip” (directed by Julia Dratel):

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