Shelter from the Ash

Submitted by Andrew Granger on 14 February 2013 - 10:51pm

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Six Organs of Admittance

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Track-listing:

Alone with the Alone*Strangled Road*Jade Like Wine*Coming to Get You*Goddess Atonement*Final Wing*Shelter from the Ash*Goodnight

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Wednesday, 24 September 2008

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reviewed by

Andrew Granger

Apocalyptic psych-folk brilliance

2-4-7

This is Six Organs of Admittance most complete album to date, mixing up mood pieces with songs, gentle acoustic folkiness with full-on electric psych wig-outs. The mood is ominous and occasionally mournful, and an apocalyptic theme seems to run through the album, but the beauty of the songs, particularly "Strangled Road" and the title track, stops things from becoming too oppressive.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

1-4-7

5-8

This album has the potential to be very good, but somehow it always leaves me feeling a little empty. There's some wonderful sounds, particularly the way the guitar feedback is used, but I find the songs just a little too melancholy. They mostly lack any kind of climax - you can't beat a good chorus sometimes. I think my enjoyment of this album would improve greatly from being listened to in the right mood, maybe after a little stimulation of some kind. Hopefully I'll get the chance to find out sometime soon.
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reviewed by

Jon Taylor

Moments of excellence, so close, but no cigar

I so wanted to like this album. There are a lot of ideas in here and the textures that are used are wonderful, but in the end it left the head interested and the heart cold.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Organ grinder

1-7

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When the album started with the wild, electric guitar wig-out Alone With the Alone, I thought I might be in for a treat. I wasn't sure where Mr Organs would take it from there and having listened to it all, I'm not sure he did either. I'm not familiar his other work but this didn't strike me as a cohesive album, he seemed to be trying bits and pieces of stuff; folk, death metal riffs, textured backgrounds, most of which was well delivered but didn't really do enough to constitute an interesting piece of music. They felt like tracks that didn't hang together or particularly connect to each other, except perhaps through the pervasive suffocating mood throughout, and where little seemed to be happening.

The guitar playing never really seemed to come alive, the bits that seemed like they were meant to be evocative or haunting were just quiet, the bits that were supposed to be aggressive or powerful were just louder. Goddess Atonement has a fairly protracted, complicated acoustic guitar theme playing throughout, which I felt never really expressed anything to me. I imagined myself as someone who had no interest in music at all, just listening to a whole bunch of notes and wondering what possible significance they might have to anybody.

I'm sorry to say that in places the album reminded me of some of the more dreary stuff on Pink Floyd'sThe Wall, and no that isn't a compliment. The title track did offer some kind of relief in terms of melody and mood. There is some great frenzied soloing over this that at last brings some emotional invigoration to the album but it felt a bit like it was too little too late.