These days I switched from Safari to Brave and get ad-free music on YouTube. And also such impressive music from Obsidian Sands from Edinburgh. A lot fits into my rather extreme patterns of music; In the doomy and heavier passages it sounds very much like Morne, only to fly over the ruins of the previous soundscape with an almost jazzy lightness in the next moment. The opener "Deep Hollow Country" feels more like a longer version of Karma to Burn compared to the following songs. However, it seems to me that the drums were somehow mixed wrong. I miss the connection with the bass and the overall sound. This initially rather straight song then loses itself in a rather cold sounding soundscape before returning to its original character. It's a shame that the drum production sounds more like hitting on a cardboard box and takes away a lot of the pressure created by bass and rhythm guitar. The songs are all structured in a very exciting way and it is not the case that changes in dynamics and mood occur after playing some parts 4 or 8 times. The band breaks in overall with compositional patterns, hence the tag sound collage. I don't know what drugs grow in Scotland, obviously the right ones to make such a hypnotic record.
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