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Six Organs Scores With Shelter

Posted Nov 24, 07 8:01 AM CST in Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Six Organs of Admittance’s latest guitar-based record, Shelter From the Ash, is another masterpiece, applying “polish” to trademark “drones, more atomized sounds (and) acoustic finger-picking,” writes Matthew Wuethrich of Dusted. It’s a triumphant gamble to clean up the band's space-age sounds—which have typically succeeded by virtue of their “unfinished quality”—and the band’s “most cohesive record yet.”

Frontman Ben Chasny drops duly “arcane references” when discussing his music, San Francisco Chronicle’s Derk Richardson says, and the shy guitarist is resistant to being pinned down as a “psych-folker.” But still critics endeavor to describe his mercurial sonics. “The default mood is enchantingly grand starkness," writes Janne Oinonen of Gigwise, "(but) you’re never far from a moment of breathtaking prettiness.”

Sources: Dusted, San Francisco Chronicle, Gigwise

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Ben Chasny AKA Six Organs of Admittance brings his esoteric influences together on his new CD 'Shelter From The Ash'.   (© Drag City)
Six Organs of Admittance performs at Amoeba Records in this YouTube capture.   (ypmtrga (YouTube))
This is a frame grab from the video "Eighth Cognition/All You've Left" by Six Organs of Admittance.   (SoamJaws (YouTube))
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