High Priestess – Casting The Circle
Ripple Music – 2020
Rock, Doom, Occult, Psych
Rated: ****
Mike O’Sullivan went all poetic again on his bandcamp blurb for the High Priestess release Casting The Circle. “A pentagrammic ritual, encircled and cast. Five psychedelic pedestals of purple and ash. Each one the upholder of a doom-totem², squared. As three stars smoulder and bloom omens there.” And we love it! The blurb and the album! Cause the three High Priestess ladies from LA bring us some easy going, ear pleasing, highly atmospheric occult doom. The seventies approach of the three give us five languid tracks to go all shamanist and crazy on. The polyphonic vocals add hugely to the spiritual tapestry that comes across as in league with the natural world and not the evil spirits. They give their instruments and compositions so much room and air it feels like you are standing on top of Sagarmatha or Erebus volcano watching all of creation speed buy while the it slows down inside of you. It’s heavy, but always in a transcending way and not in an aggressive way. It will spin you out of time and make you forget all about that world that is speeding by outside of you. And yes, it might turn you into a poet!
(Written by JK)
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