Also Rising Album

Followers
of today's psychedelic/experimental rock underground have long found rapture
and reverence in the total lysergic experience of SubArachnoid
Space. Since their inception in 1996 and over the course of seven
full-length albums, the San Francisco-based quartet have spun a web of
dynamically textured trip-scapes induced almost entirely from total improvisation,
drawing a torrent of praise in the process. Live they are a force to be
reckoned with, a spontaneous combustion of tremendous power fueled by
intense volume and crystalline dissonance. Every one of their recordings
display a steady evolution in their unique brand of improvised drone rock,
with each one exploring a myriad of different textures. For their eighth
album, the band has honed their craft into a finely sharpened prism, a
record aimed for your gut as well as your head. Also Rising
is the new revelatory oracle, the band's most powerful, focused and simply
finest recording to date.
Initially
conceived as a band exploring psychedelic terrain from on-the-spot creation,
Also Rising stands apart as SubArachnoid Space's
most composed record. Much of the band's output charts effects-laden acid-rock/drone
via telepathic interplay, but this time SubArachnoid Space hone
ideas crafted from the depths of improvisation to a set of razor-sharp
songs that stick with your brain receptors, refusing to leave. The result
retains all the magic of their full-blown flights of fancy, but with a
solid punch that will leave your mind and body reeling. Armed to the cerebellum
with effects-drenched twin guitars, bowel-rumbling bass and propulsive,
complex drumming, SubArachnoid Space get the acid test rolling
with "Harsh Facts of Life"; stun-gun guitars omit phaser-like drones,
inducing a propulsive, percussive line that teases the bass into melody,
bleeding into a dark stoner-rock groove for the guitars to play lazer-tag
over. Also Rising weaves and bobs onward across a dense
and varied landscape, alternating between aggressive neuronal meltdowns
and chiming, glistening corridors. Ending with the blissful catharsis
of "Tigris" (a truncated, fine-tuned version of the side-long opus opposite
Bardo Pond on the split LP they shared on Camera Obscura
last year), the comedown is a total psychic purge leaving your brain quivering.

Traversing
the acid-jam rhythmic grooves of Meddle-era Pink Floyd, the subconscious
stirrings of the Cosmic Jokers, and seasoning the sonics with the
free-skree guitar aviation of Magnog or Skullflower, Also
Rising is a flooring dictum in SubArachnoid Space's mind
expansion campaign. May it hotwire your headspace accordingly. -Strange Attractors