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Medusa Cyclone
Medusa Cyclone
1 Gravity Serpent
2 Burner
3 X-Plodo Sun Hat
4 Black Dawn
5 Chemical
6 Inch of Mercury
7 Half Doll Violet Star
8 Atomic Hand
9 Dream House
10 Assigned Frequency
11 Helium Head
The eponymous 1995 album from this band, made of members from the equally impressive ViV Akauldren, is weird and wonderful.
At times replete with aggression and verve, at other times ambient, creeping, desparate and mournful - it attains this ethereal, unsettling and strangely alluring mood throughout its duration.
I cant remember the last time i listened to an album that caused me to become so detached from my perceptions and reality - if you focus on it and nothing else it really can take you to another, sometimes perturbing place beyond the realms of the explainable.
Musically, it sounds at times like Can at their strangest, Faust and Five Feet Hoses - all the while emanating from the same strange planet as Syd Barrett.
Its impossible to pick out stand-alone tracks, the music all blends into one big phantasmagoria of distant drones and echoes from the deepest chasms of space. That said, there is a beautiful vastness to each song and melody is present throughout - it isnt merely an atonal slab of noise passed off as experimentation. I strongly recommend it to anybody who enjoys such an experience, though i cant really recommend it enough and really want to place it higher... but i cant
