Yawning Sons – Sky Island

 

 

Yawning Sons – Sky Island
Ripple Music / Purple Sage PR – 2021
Rock, Desert, Stoner, Prog
Rated: *****

We’ve been floating along the majestic tunes of Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Yawning Man and everything Gary Arce ever produced for quite some time now. So when the new Sky Island album by that most wonderful of collaboration projects called Yawning Sons emerged we could not stop spinning it. Even more so since this time around they invited quite a few other desert magicians along for the ride. Maestro Dandy Brown, Mario Lalli, Scott Reeder and Wendy Rae Fowler all joined the Yawning Sons line-up to help produce an album that will definitely blow every languid prog, laidback desert and dreamy stoner loving fiend’s mind. Imploring mastering aid from John McBain this is once again a stunning release by Yawning Sons. Evoking subtle and little echoes from David Bowie and Chris Goss during a few instances, being lyrical pronunciation or alchemic melody, the eight tracks will transport you to a different plane of existence altogether. And we must confess that those tracks (Low In The Valley, Gravity Underwater) that feature that sweet and blessed voice of Dandy Brown simply take the breath away. The same can be said for Cigarette Footsteps, featuring Mario Lalli. All of them not only excel in vocal delivery, the compositions seem to mirror the sky, with ringing guitar work, pulsating bass and controlled slow moving drums. And it feels extremely unfair to single those out, cause the rest of ‘m, are just as good. Cosmic and yet very earthy, astral and o' so tangible... What an amazing album!

(Written by JK)

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