Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Voice Of The Seven Thunders - Voice Of The Seven Thunders (2010)

























ARTIST`````Voice Of The Seven Thunders
ALBUM`````Voice Of The Seven Thunders
GENRE`````Psychedelic Rock, Indie, Folk, Instrumental
YEAR````````2010

Album review
His debut album is a sprawling, largely instrumental affair with many threads: Eastern-tinged psychedelia, hazy, pastoral folk and dusty desert blues. And they are expertly combined, with cantering acoustic guitars and propulsive grooves preventing the sound from ever lapsing into proggy torpor. - Observer Music Monthly back in 2007 when Rick Tomlinson and co. unveiled their first full length as Voice of the Seven Woods.

Fast forward two and a half years (a few cdr’s, a ten inch, a seven inch or two and a rather apt alteration of name) and you wouldn’t even countenance the idea of a “proggy torpor” whilst listening to these ten songs. They take those aforementioned elements, retaining the focus on instrumentals, and they hardboil them like misguided spiritual alchemists. The resulting explosions of alloy and lore are compelling to say the least. Groovy too. No torpor, they don’t leave any time for that kind of malarkey.

And, after the initial shock, there’s plenty of beauty to be found beneath the muscular dynamics. Tomlinson’s playing is an absolute joy to hear, whether you’re nodding slowly or thrashing your head around wildly, and the band he’s got billowing up a storm behind him aren’t half bad either. Whether it’s Seven Woods or Seven Thunders, this particular guitarist is brewing up something extraordinary amidst the hills of Lancashire.

2 comments:

chrisperren said...

Hi!

I stumbled across your blog and I think you are covering some really interesting stuff. I downloaded this Voice Of The Seven Thunders album last week & it swiftly entered my iPod's high rotation list...

I was looking for an email address for you, but couldn't find one... but was going to let you know that I work with an australian indie label called lofly, we release diverse experimental rock and innovative electronic music.

I was interested in seeing whether you'd be keen to get on our releases mailing list (I promise it's not spammy!). If you're interested let me know at chrisperren at gmail dot com and I'll put you on the list.

We're at lofly.com if you need more info.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Chris

Bleeding Panda said...

Hi Chris,

I checked out you site - it's very interesting what you do. Too bad you have so few gigs @ Hangar - if I am ever near Queensland I'll stop by definitely.

Great work and keep promoting young artists:)

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