If Water Damage were a doom metal band, they might sound like this. Celestial Power's self-titled debut album was released last Friday by Feeding Tube and Cardinal Fuzz, whose Dave Cambridge is in the band alongside Dead Sea Apes’ Brett Savage and Chris Hardman. It comprises four tracks, about 10 minutes apiece, each one fueled by maximum volume and minimal variation. I assume Byron Coley, the esteemed veteran underground music critic who runs Feeding Tube, wrote this bit from the album bio:
What they’ve summoned is a sprawling liturgy of overdriven guitar mantras: brutal, blown-out, and gloriously repetitive. Imagine the Velvet Underground locked in a warehouse mainlining the kosmische pulse of some forgotten Krautrock commune while Bardo Pond’s ash-coated spirit hovers overhead, scattering embers into a storm of PSF-style amplifier abuse.
If those words have piqued your interest at all, you really ought to dive in here. It's all so heavy, so fuzzy, so stuck on one beautiful idea. Who needs variation? Become one with the music below.
Celestial Power is out now via Feeding Tube/Cardinal Fuzz. Buy it here.
