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Advaitic Songs

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Advaitic Songs

The stoner metal bass and drums duo go all mystic on their 5th album, blending eastern sounds into the sludge mix

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
23/07/2012
US Release date
24/07/2012
  1. 9.0 |   BBC

    Strange, hypnotic and utterly transcendental, capable of being linked spiritually – if not stylistically – with other fringe-dwelling artists like Earth, Arbouretum and Daniel Higgs
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  2. 9.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    The most complete and coherent example of Om’s modus operandi
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  3. 8.0 |   Prefix

    It is far and away the most entrancing document the band has released
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  4. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    The finest offering yet from OM, a phenomenal distillation of their unique and wondrous sound
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  5. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    An album for metalheads and the metal-curious alike, one of those records that opens the gates to the genre
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  6. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Everything from the superbly produced recording of the female chants that open the record to the weeping cello riffs of ‘Siani’ speaks of a record full of ambition and ideas
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  7. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    A hugely seductive mix of droning strings, tablas, chants and melodies (both eastern and western) woven together in a hazy melange of rock at its most languorous
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  8. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Despite all the mysticism, religion, tradition and history tied up in Advaitic Songs, this is a surprisingly accessible album, and one that finds OM at their best
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  9. 7.0 |   NME

    Brain-rinsingly psychedelic without needing to tell you about it, they deserve to sit at the table with Current 93 and post-Syd/pre-stadium Pink Floyd
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  10. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    If Advaitic Songs can claim any flaw, this would be its production, which is very clean and exposes its intention for isolated sounds as forced
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  11. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    The tracks feel restrained and poetic, but not always very substantial. A pity, but at the same time, Advaitic Songs does reward multiple listens. It's a subtle and meaningful album
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  12. 6.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Om’s redesign runs out of steam before such a totally convincing “new direction” has been conjured. Too often, Advaitic Songs is happy to revert to Om’s default settings, with added cello
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  13. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    The complexity of these compositions ensures that what they lack in intensity is compensated for in their ornate beauty
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  14. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Immersing yourself in these five pieces without succumbing to the spiritual aspect of this music is possible. The music itself stands on its own
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  15. 5.2 |   Pitchfork

    The music is unmistakably theirs, but the intensity of it feels lost in the arrangements
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  16. 5.0 |   Spin

    Metal mystics spend too much time toying with tablas, indulging Sublime Freq-ery, regressing to sleepy Sleepisms
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  17. 3.0 |   Uncut

    A reminder that stoners are generally tedious. Print edition only


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