MP3: The Goner - Spirit roundup
Here's another one that probably should've been included in last week's "best music of 2008 thus far" series of posts (here, here and here), but I ran out of days so what can ya do? As I stated before with regards to The Goner, the music he creates is willfully obscure psych/pop/drone par excellence and this particular track is the perfect culmination of everything he stands for. "Halartrallar", the first EP of his planned H-Trilogy, leaned more towards the pop side of things with a few tracks that approximated a standard verse/chorus/verse format, but "Hind Hand", the second installation of the series, is all dronedronedronedronedrone. And I'm not talking about ambient electronic noodling either, this is heavily influenced by Indian raga, so it's very rhythmic, not to mention incredibly melodic. As for esoteric? Hardly. There is no challenge to appreciating blissed-out jams like this. It also passes the toughest test of my household in that even my hard-to-please wife loves it. Undertand: that's high praise from a fickle source.
Only 33 copies were made, so you better grab one before they're gone: [click here]
The Goner - Spirit roundup