Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2, & 3

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chainlinkspiral Entropy on repeat. Favorite track: Erosion Blues.

supersonicscientist darkish-dronish, instrumental-experimental. not really a concept album more like a loose bundle of jams collected - but then in a way somehow well a conceptual piece of work. grounded and relaxing, but definitely no happy background music.

Glitzy Límon The soundtrack to the weirdest movie a depressed Tim Burton should have made. Some seriously dark shit here, folks. Grails ties off, spikes up and gets down and dirty. Hold onto your butts. Favorite track: Smokey Room.

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1.	Back To The Monastery 05:05	buy track
2.	Bad Bhang Recipe 04:04	buy track
3.	Belgian Wake-Up Drill 03:57	buy track
4.	Smokey Room 03:09	buy track
5.	Black Tar Frequencies 05:08	buy track
6.	Stray Dog 05:58	buy track
7.	Erosion Blues 04:55	buy track
8.	More Erosion 05:16	buy track
9.	Black Tar Prophecy 08:01

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At the start of 2005 Grails returned to the US from a month-long European tour. Stepping off the plane, most of the band walked in one direction and the violinist strayed off into another. It ended up being the last time most anyone would see or talk to him. A bandmate for three albums in five years had vanished only to exist in the form of vague rumors. As the varied reports of brief encounters and sightings grew stranger and darker, the band began a series of recordings called Black Tar Prophecies. With newly liberated instrumental roles came new possibilities for the band’s sound. In this way the collected Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2, & 3 ends up being a more idiosyncratic mission statement for future Grails recordings, revealing their fondness for the ‘60s and ‘70s experimental artists that saw music as a process of discovery. A parallel was now forming between Grails and pioneering experimental bands like Faust who, rejecting their past, started over from the beginning to build new languages in music.

Remastered for vinyl and reissued for the first time in over a decade, Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2, & 3 is a massive evolutionary step in the established Grails sound and is shrouded in change and pain. The somewhat clinical studio sound and recording style with which they had established a tremendous following has been replaced with a much more free and conceptual recording style. This method liberated the group in the studio and these recordings feel much more open, heavy, and psychedelic. This sound has always existed within Grails, but it was here that it became their identity.

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released August 28, 2006

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