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Artist...: At The Head Of The Woods - Blood Of The Black Owl
Album....: Here I Stand / Visions Of Strix Nebulosa
Genre....: Folk
Label....: Handmade Birds
Source...: Audience
Url......: N/A
Size.....: 79.72 MB
Playtime.: 49:31
Type.....: Split
` Release..: 2018.03.10
Encoder..: Lame 3.98.4
` Quality..: VBR / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
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`: :'
`:I finally had received this split in the mail and listened :'
`:to it right away. First off, it has very simple packaging. :'
`:The very nice album cover that was some sort of paper, :'
`:possibly thin cardboard, was wrapped in plastic, and then :'
`:inside that is just a simple black sleeve with the actual :'
`:cd, which is a dark brown colour (yes, I am Canadian). :'
`: :'
`:Anyway, continuing on to the music, the first half is a :'
`:song called "Here I Stand" by At the Head of the Woods. :'
`:This song sounds very similar to any Blood of the Black Owl:'
`:song for about the first half; typical slow drumming and :'
`:guitars moving at a cathartic crawling pace. Then the song :'
`:breaks into this Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin-esque, spacey :'
`:"let's do some acid man"-sounding part. It is very nice and:'
`:relaxing. It actually feels like the song is from the '70s.:'
`:This was my first exposure to At the Head of the Woods and :'
`:it was a decent one at that, so I am happy with the first :'
`:part of the album, though the fact that this song is 25 :'
`:minutes long can be difficult to digest all at once for :'
`:some people. :'
`: :'
`:The second part of the album was the part that I have been :'
`:looking forward to for over a year. This is essentially a :'
`:composition of two Blood of the Black Owl songs that were :'
`:released on MySpace awhile ago. Chet Scott decided to :'
`:disable his account and so the songs disappeared. Then he :'
`:announced that they would be included on this split. The :'
`:two songs, "Hibernation" and "Minutiae", have been combined:'
`:into one song called "Visions of Strix Nebulosa." :'
`: :'
`:The first part of the track is "Hibernation". This song :'
`:sounds like the forgotten or missing song from "A :'
`:Banishing Ritual". This makes perfect sense because these :'
`:two songs were recorded during that time. This song also :'
`:reminds me of the first song off of "A Feral Spirit - :'
`:Spell of the Elk" with the way the drumming and chanting :'
`:moves throughout the song at a very contemplative, slow :'
`:speed. In between the two tracks is a transition track :'
`:which really just sounds like "Hibernation". Chet Scott :'
`:chants 'awaken' a few times and the track leads into the :'
`:main reason why I purchased this cd, the track "Minutiae." :'
`:I had first heard this on the MySpace and I instantly :'
`:loved it. I would listen to it on MySpace often and then :'
`:when it was taken down I was very disappointed, so finally :'
`:I got to listen to this song again which might be my :'
`:favourite Blood of the Black Owl song. The song consists of:'
`:a very relaxing and soothing, yet creepily clean guitar :'
`:notes repeated many times throughout the song. Also there :'
`:is a very alien-like sounding keyboard usage, which is :'
`:fantastic. The lyrics are very interesting as well, things :'
`:such as "So I eat the moon, in an effort to digest :'
`:sleep....I invite it!" This part of the song lasts about 13:'
`:minutes and it is easily the best part of the whole album. :'
`:"Minutiae" is very calming and trance-inducing and is :'
`:perfect for falling asleep to and reflecting about whatever:'
`:it is you want to. :'
`: :'
`:I had waited for a long time for this release and now that :'
`:I got it I am very happy. The only complaints I have are :'
`:that I really did prefer the two Blood of the Black Owl :'
`:songs more when they were split up. The 25 minutes of music:'
`:can be difficult at times and might be even more so for :'
`:other listeners. Overall, this is not something that takes :'
`:away from the music, it just makes it more time consuming, :'
`:but in a way that allows one to escape into this world. :'
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