Heat From a Deadstar – Seven Rays of the Sun

http://www.heatfromadeadstar.com/ - no strangers to these pages albeit it has been a fair old while since we had anything to hoot about, Heat from a Deadstar are one of those most rare of beasts who seem to defy current trends, fads and bouts of press hyped sheep following, occupying a universe uniquely their own they veer between mind blowing and magnificent, their craft plotting a trajectory that sees them orbit the calms of the beautifully brooding and the atmospherically ravaged. There’s an album just out entitled ‘the seven rays of the sun’ which happily we’ve managed to re-prise from the ever teetering CD mountain and something that will be getting closer attention over the course of the next few days. For now though three cuts culled from said full length feature on their showcasing music player and reveal an ever growing maturity at work in their song craft, a huge melting pot of shoe gaze dialects, psych tinged aural choreography and post punk austerity all grounded, blended and served with a distinct 60’s sourced rock based focus whose bloodline loosely traces its way towards Blue Cheer. Lighter in tonality than their earlier ‘lighten our minds’ outing wherein the obvious late 80’s / early 90’s Sub Pop / Touch n Go signposts bled from it pores and where the general mood was one of doom tipped apocalyptic grandeur, though that’s not to say their any less discordant or fractured ’messy kid’ still happily pisses in the agitant accents of a math wired Fugazi as though finding themselves a tad wasted and relocated by magic bus to some late 60’s hippy commune. ’summer of dark’ with its pensive angular motifs a la early career Left Hand soon unfurls to reveal a gorgeously wide screen tapered landscape replete with cantering pastoral follies much reminiscent it has to be said of the more tranquil moments from the Grails back catalogue. Though that said our favoured cut of the trio is ‘seahorse seafish’ a kind of three way fusion extracting elements of the Sea and Cake, My Bloody Valentine and Quickspace and sweetly stirring the mixture into a deeply affecting post rock noodle stew. And while you’re there check out the simply arresting ‘joan’ lifted from their ‘the lighthouse’ set from a year or two ago - a gorgeously mesmerising cosmic overture tweaked with the softly definable lull of Barrett Floyd and deliciously dinked with a definite Porcupine Tree which in terms of panoramic appreciation we here are thinking this lot - though not sound wise - most clearly identify with.
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THANKS MARK!