Museum of Light – Horizon

 

 

Museum of Light – Horizon
Spartan Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Grunge, Post, Prog
Rated: *****

We’ve been digging this debut album by Seattle trio Museum of Light a whole fucking lot! In fact, Horizon, together with a handful of others, were jotted down immediately as my personal top favorites for the June Doom Charts. So, I was extremely happy to see it reach the Number 17 position of the June 2022 edition of the Doom Charts. Opener Organelle, immediately induces this deep state hypnotic trance, filled with warm orange light, giving you a feeling of peace and safety… Until the pounding starts! Jogging you awake, into this totally different realm, marooned somewhere, deserted, castaway, where Waves of heaviness wash over you. Never completely drowning you, but always on the verge of. That two-track opening section is so meticulously crafted, you feel honored and grateful to be listening to it. And as the crashing Waves slowly dissipates into a lovely swell of light and air, the highly atmospheric Cal seems to move ever more into a prog and sludgy territory. Where the repeated vocal lines add an extra layer of breathtaking mystery and those keys at the end opens up the entire composition, giving you another moment of relieve, before Soft Openings comes on. Where the shivering of glee and ecstasy continues, for it seems Museum of Light have found an amazing recipe for making a surging, swelling and crashing album that not only gives you light where needed but also manages to make the dark something you want to embrace. Theres a wonderful balance here. Everything seems to interlock on a natural almost obvious way and with all the sparkling instrumentation, the ability to let it all ride, you feel the boundless love the three have for their Horizon album. And it will surely make your heart grow as well, till it almost bursts…

(Written by JK)

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