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$37.00
$37.00
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ARTIST
MELTON, CARLTON
TITLE
Turn To Earth
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
AGITATED RECORDS
CATALOG #
AGIT 068LP
AGIT 068LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/10/2023
Double LP version. "Northern California psychedelic sorcerers
Carlton Melton
are brain surfers, mind trippers -- 'psychlists,' if you prefer. The band will take your head for a ride, occasionally rushing at superluminal speeds through a wormhole or gliding softly on a gentle breeze in a leafy glade. Sometimes your brain needs to rage, and sometimes it needs to repose. For a decade and a half, the band has yo-yo'ed, almost schizophrenically, between these two modes: walloping space jams with furious guitar solos in one hemisphere of the brain and ethereal, feather-light splashdowns in the other. Not to mention a track here and there that builds from the latter into the former. But with two new releases in 2023, the band has evolved. Whether psych rock or ambient trance, their sound remains driving, organic, and flowing. With the addition of
Anthony Taibi
(
White Manna
,
DDT
), however, the group's metal freak-outs are
Hawkwindier
and their droning kraut trances are
Spacemen 3
-er. The cover art of
Turn To Earth
evokes a vine-covered, electric crucifix. The sound is, well, earthy but also gritty and striving towards change.
Phil Becker
(
Terry Gross
,
Pins Of Light
) contributed drums and percussion to a few tracks on
Turn To Earth
, recording the album at El Studio in San Francisco. With Becker at the helm, the synths have become more prominent and the tone heavier on the doom: several moments could even serve as background music for epic dark fantasy films like
Conan the Barbarian
,
Fire and Ice
, or
Heavy Metal
. As exquisite as
Turn To Earth
is, Melton are best appreciated as a live act: their recordings as well as their gigs are largely improvised -- not so much composed as birthed."
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