Those with low expectations might still get something out of this new recording by Sunn O))) amp botherer Stephen O’Malley. On first listen, it’s a fairly underwhelming experience on account of its relative sparseness and brevity. Released in the Portraits GRM series, the “album” is a single piece so those who are after a physical copy would be advised to purchase it on compact disc. Not only is this cheaper, it means you won’t have to turn over an LP halfway through listening to the song. Once the CD is out of its shrink-wrap and in the machine, the display will read a total running time of 32:39. That’s fairly tight as far as drone-metal recordings go. Given that O’Malley is operating at his typical snail pace, it doesn’t allow for much musical expansion to occur before…
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