Sunday 01.20.07: KXLU presents OM @ Echoplex

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While rhythm sections tend to play as if periods were the only punctuation mark, Om break space with commas, semicolons, and side clauses– their storytelling prowess and dramatic timing rival a glacier’s or a narcoleptic’s. But again, that’s not the point. Om is a pointless band, and that’s high praise. If Pilgrimage holds a discernable achievement, it’s that it forges a sense of intricacy– and a balance between the crushing and the meditative– that Om struggled with on Variations on a Theme and 2006’s Conference of the Birds. Most of “Bhima’s Theme” is bread and butter for head-nodders, but “Pilgrimage” (which opens and closes the record), is shiftier and less stable, accentuated by a bassline that seems to tack extra bars to a phrase if it feels good, not for the sake of metrics. It’s not metal and it’s not even drone; it’s like a heavy folk dance. – Pitchfork

with:
Lichens

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026