This latest salvo from the PDX cosmic outfit is a continuous rush, its multi-guitar onslaught striving towards anthemic, psychedelic motion, its giant drum (a marching band’s bass drum turned onto its side) pounding in ritual, magic exultation. You can still experience the spreading, unbound serenity of past releases — “Walker’s Dead Birds” is, at its center, full of stillness and awe — but, in general, these cuts move. “New Imposition of Light,” is a stirring vortex of 1960s gnostic rock.
…So yes, exciting, excessive, over-the-top and wildly entertaining , all that applies to Abronia’s latest album. There are, as before, nods to the Americana tradition, most particularly in the pedal steel that opens “Mirrored Ends of Light.” However, this music is way more…

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