Previously on OPIUM HUM:
You know what I absolutely love? Albums that start with their longest, least accessible track. As opposed to the prevailing idea that you have to immediately grab a listener's attention or you'll lose them, it says: "This is our house. You're absolutely welcome here, but we're not gonna put on airs." Such a baller move. Other examples that spring to mind: Get Up with It by Miles Davis, ...Is Eternal Life by William Hooker, and Northsuite by Velvet Cacoon.
Anyway, this one's another request, and as long as y'all keep asking for great shit that I'm stoked to revisit, I'm happy to deliver. Ghost truly is one of the greatest psych bands to have ever graced this wretched planet, and from its amorphous, free-jazz-leaning opener to uptempo psych rock to its haunting psych-folk closer, Hypnotic Underworld is for sure one of their best.
Track listing:
1. Hypnotic Underworld: God Took a Picture of His Illness on This Ground
2. Hypnotic Underworld: Escaped and Lost Down in Medina
3. Hypnotic Underworld: Aramaic Barbarous Dawn
4. Hypnotic Underworld: Leave the World!
5. Hazy Paradise
6. Kiseichukan Nite
7. Piper
8. Ganagmanag
9. Feed
10. Holy High
11. Dominoes - Celebration for the Gray Days
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ReplyDeleteWhile I'm here - thanks for the eclecticism - it's been a fun ride for a long time. Really appreciate it.
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Deletethanks for this ! never knew where to start, and had trouble disambiguating these guys from the Swedes
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ReplyDeleteAt that time they were on the cover of Wire magazine. Great record.
ReplyDeleteClassic! Bought the CD years ago at a secondhand store as a blind buy based on the cover alone.
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