Kylesa Spiral Shadow Import LP

Reissue, originally released in 2010. Spiral Shadow is the fifth full-length album by American sludge metal band Kylesa.

A metal band to the bone, Kylesa stomp the clichés right out of psych-rock on Spiral Shadow. The Georgia band's new album, their fifth in less than a decade, is the next step in a pretty seamless evolution that's hidden increasingly complex (and catchy!) music behind an attack that still hits with the in-the-red rawness of hardcore.

This Savannah, GA-based hard rock band has finally painted its masterpiece on this, its fifth full-length.... [T]he songs are more psychedelic than ever, with guitarist/vocalists Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasants shouting and crooning back and forth at each other in a call-and-response style that sometimes sounds like an argument, and other times like a ritual. Pleasants' dreamy crooning on 'Don't Look Back' recalls '90s shoegaze, or Kim Gordon's work with Sonic Youth on albums like Sister and EVOL. Cope and Pleasants' guitar work is incantatory and powerful, rising to Baroness-like heights of glory... The mix is somehow both spacious and full, with each instrument clearly audible at all times, yet making up one part of a majestic whole. This is a great psychedelic hard rock album...