It’s been a very long uh, several weeks since we’ve been blessed by new music from the New York Instrumental Doom outfit, Clouds Taste Satanic.

Needless to say, it’s been well worth the wait. The very busy group has is dropping their ninth studio LP not long after their Christmas album EP (and third release in a calendar year). With their latest offering 79 A.E. (Majestic Mountain Records), if you’re looking for a massive departure from the tried and true, you may have to confess yourself disappointed. Fans of this band who are always hungry for more will be thrilled.

If you do find yourself in the category of wanting them to do something different, may I posit the following:

This is their real first attempt at narrative music, a la Peter and The Wolf. The major difference here is that somehow there’s a film attached to this sprawling psychedelic doom experience. This album hits differently than they have done in the past because of just that.

In a very literary sense, most of their previous works feel far more like reading the poem Kubla Khan. Here though, we have more than a drugged out trip down a tiny river. This album is a journey. A build up.

The fuzzed out tones are sublime to a level that defies my trademark analogies. The sonics of the record, thanks to a new engineer and studio, are leveled up. There’s just no deficiency in this album whatsoever.

This long time fan of the band couldn’t be happier with what they’ve produced.

Buy the album here:
https://cloudstastesatanic.bandcamp.com/album/79-a-e

8 / 10
NIK CAMERON