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God mother**** it all, the new Hatred Surge album slays. Grindy, chaotic, heavy as the dickens.

I really wish I was better at learning songs by listening because I really like their banjo arrangements and they don't sound too complicated. I would really like to do a cover of "Black Dress" at some acoustic open mic night.

Still my favorite O'Death song is "Fire On Peshtigo", it almosts sounds like a Gang of Four song.

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Billy Woods—Dour Candy
Just got this a day or two ago and holy crap is it great. It's more low-key than History Will Absolve Me but every bit as good.

Spectrals - Sob Story
Upbeat guitar-driven UK garage Rock/power pop. Hints of Elvis Costello at times with a nice, sparing implementation of steel guitar and country flavor on a handful of tracks.

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Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions
Very cool drone/psychedelica that's not much typical of offerings from either genre. The implementation of sitars, flute, and slide guitar make it a very hypnotic listen. The album itself, interestingly enough, progressively becomes heavier and more driven as the tracks go on until the end of the album where it teeters on the precipice of doom metal.

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Black Host - Life in the Sugar Candle Mines
Some of the best free jazz I've ever heard easily the best released withing the past 10 years. The influence of Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come can be unmistakable at times, although this ensemble of bass, guitar, drums, piano, and sax definitely adds a much different dynamic. If you get a little beleaguered at times that contemporary jazz can't bring the magic of it's halcyon days with any sort of originality to spare this album will definitely change your mind.

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That's an incredible album, thanks for posting that! I really love the Northern Spy label, I've yet to hear any bands they've signed that I dislike.

To my knowledge it's the first album from the label that I've really checked out, but based on your enthusiasm I think I'll be digging through their catalogue in the very near future.

Well to start they've got: Ceramic Dog, Zs, Charles Gayle, Thurston Moore, Loren Connors, John Butcher, Neptune, & Diamond Terrifier. Not sure which albums were released under this label for Gayle, Moore, and Connors, but having a small knowledge of their discography I doubt they've released any clunkers for Northern Spy.

Wow, learning that Thurston Moore is on Northern Spy invokes quite a bit of curiosity.

This sounds super awesome. Have added it to my Spotify. If you know of anything else that fits this description, drop me a line, I'm getting pretty interested in more hypnotic, psychedelic, spiritual type music.

I'm so glad people here are getting into this album, it's probably my favorite release of 2013. Such a freaking good record.

Although the instrumentation is completely different my first suggestion would be Om's God is Good, an excellent, ethereal drone album.