Think for a second about where we listen to music and then about what music we listen to. The way I see it, there are quite a few categories: the subway, the bedroom, the shower, the bar, the city street - the list could go on for a while but you get the point. There is however one category I didn't mention because it is both out of place and out of the ordinary: meditation.
Om, a duo of the incredibly talented bassist and vocalist Al Cisneros and the wildly accurate drummer Emil Amos, form long threadlike meditative melodies that are in many ways hypnotic and drug-like. God is Good takes the raucous rhthyms of previous albums - Variations on a Theme - and tames them, making for transcendental aural experience. Call it stoner rock or drone metal or whatever you like; music is music.
That being said, candles out, lamps off and lighters at the ready folks.
Daolnwod
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