FORMAT: CS [c43] + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD // EDITION: 69 // RELEASED: 07.09.12 // $9.00 + shipping
Very limited number of this first new Herbcraft release since last summer's Ashram To The Stars LP!
Full-length cassette includes a free digital download of the album.
Full-length cassette includes a free digital download of the album.
"Flowering represents some of Herbcraft’s most expressive and exploratory
work to date blending psychedelic pop melodies with some of the most
trashed sounding sonic voyages exploring the arc from the US West Coast
to the Tokyo underground. Minds were blown here at Julia Dream when we
first heard Flowering and we are extremely excited that this is our
inaugural release. Keep the crops flowering." - Julia Dream Recordings
"Mind-blowing tape from the Herbcraft cultus aka Matthew Lajoie of
Cursillistas et al: Flowering was briefly non-available as an edition of
only 12 copies cassette privately distributed amongst friends but the
quality of the sonics so impressed noted Blues scholar and COM
correspondent Andrew Ross that he started up his own deluxe tape
imprint, Julia Dream Recordings, just to bring it to the world. Issued
here in an edition of 69 copies with gorgeous pro-printed sleeves,
Flowering represents the absolute apex of the Herbcraft saga thus far,
devouring genres and regurgitating them as foggy out-of-focus paeans to
oblivion via weeping single note blues delivered with alla the amplified
overdrive of Rallizes or the Far Out. The whole deal starts off with a
dosed/phased F/X vox and ashram vibes tone-float before tripping over
into “Journey To The Center Of Your Hive”, a multi-dimensional transport
that pushes the interstellar overdrive to the max. “Magic Carpet Ride
Hallucination #4” kicks into a streamlined Krautrock groove before
dissolving the whole thing via gate after gate of gloopy F/X while
“Flowers Strewn” is a beautifully lucid take on six-string sorcery ala
Ben Chasny’s most circuitous outings. But it’s “Psychic Spore
Travellin’” that best takes your head off, a totally epic six-string
amplifier-worshipping monolith that tears fuzz and confusion from
wailing steel with all of the void gobbling force of your favourite
Tokyo titan. Throw in a bunch of disconnected downs that sound like
they’re beamed from Skip Spence’s weeping third eye and you have the
most goddamn potent collection of trips und trauma this side of
yesterday. Cassette issue of the year? No question. Comes with a free
download. Very highly recommended. " - Volcanic Tongue
