I am by no means well versed in the drone genre, hell, I’m probably liable to call it dark ambient as all these music subgenres and their distinctions are largely lost on me. Whatever it is that Sunn O))) is pumping out on Monoliths & Dimensions, I really dig it. This is their seventh full album although my first sampling of their work based on a recommendation. It consists of four tracks ranging from nine to seventeen minutes apiece. “Big Church” (which has a much longer title in brackets that I tried to put here but broke my formatting) is my favorite and a definite standout with its droning, cultish background vocals and the stark, provocative drops into silences that interject themselves into the song for solitary bell chimes. The whole album is well on its way to becoming a regular player when I’m reading or writing. I’m going to have to dive into the rest of their catalogue after this one.
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