Grails - Burning Off Impurities

Grails. Burning off Impurities 2007. 4 stars.

A dark and trace-inducing psychedelic rock album, Grails’ Burning off Impurities is not only a homage to progressive acts of the 70s, it also fuses Middle-Eastern inspired guitar riffs with metal’s propulsive drive and heaviness. The tracks here are incredibly fluid and organic sounding, especially the slow-burning “Drawn Curtains” which includes strings and blues-style bass lines and percussion. While the entire album is instrumental, it is still lyrical, conjuring up evocative mental imagery with the band’s incredible attention to sonic detail. Burning off Impurities is a meditative and genuinely psychedelic experience.

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