Mammatus

Mammatus is swirling, fuzzy, acid dropping, psychedelic rock circa the 1970's. The songs (four total) are long and winding. The bass player plays like Al Cisneros from OM and Sleep so you can expect lots of dank, head nodding tunes. The guitars and vocals sound like Dinosaur Jr. on serious hallucinogens, jamming out to these hypnotic bass lines with steady and sturdy drum work to keep it all anchored somewhere this side of the universe. Somehow four songs never get boring as I find myself hitting repeat on this one quite often. The first track is pure JRR Tolkien meets his Doom (I always capitalize Doom, its a word that deserves capital letters) segueing nicely into a shire jam, The Outer Rim, induced by only the best of the shires weed. The last two tracks, Dragon of the Deep Part 1 and Part 2 are incredible jammers and couldve been the whole album if they stretched them out to 30 minutes each, wailing and weaving and arcing a path across the sky of god like guitaristry. The album artwork is amazing, the songs are amazing, so be prepared to be amazed.

One of the best releases of 2006.

As an interesting side note, Mammatus is a kind of cloud, that forms around or after tornadoes and other big storms. One look at these otherworldy clouds and you should have a good idea of what you are getting into.


Mammatus clouds