Earth
Primitive & Deadly
The first Earth album to feature vocals since Kurt Cobain sang on their debut EP Legendary vocalist Mark Lanegan Queens Of The Stone Age Screaming Trees sings on two songs on the album Sub Pop recording artists Rose Windows' vocalist Rabia Shaheen Qazi delivers a incredible vocal performance on the song 'From The Zodiacal Light' Renowned guitarist Brett Netson Built to Spill is the featured 2nd guitarist on the entire album Earth's career like its music has always been a slow deliberate progression Each record slightly removed from the last a constant refinement of a singular vision Dylan Carlson has remained focused throughout on coaxing moments of strange beauty and reflection from the riff This elemental foundation of rock is refracted in their earliest recordings through the prism of sheer volume and feedbacking drone or via a sparse unraveling take on folk With 'Primitive And Deadly' Earth's tenth studio collection Carlson and long term cohort drummer Adrienne Davies manage to come full circle twentyfive years in the making whilst exploring new directions in their music For the first time in their diverse career they allow themselves to be a rock band freed of adornment and embellishmentAs much as Carlson's guitar has always been the focal point of Earth's music it's been surrounded by consistently diverse instrumentation Here the dialog between Carlson and Davies drumming remains pivotal underpinned by the sympathetic bass of Bill Herzog Sunn O Joel RL Phelps Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter and thickened by additional layers of guitar from Brett Netson Built To Spill Caustic Resin and Jodie Cox Narrows Perhaps the largest left turn on 'Primitive And Deadly' though is the prominence of guest vocalists Mark Laneganand Rabia Shaheen Qazi Rose Windows who transform the traditionally free ranging meditations of Earth into something approaching traditional pop structures On 'Rooks Across the Gates' Carlson stretches out into some of his most lyrical playing to date creating an almost symbiotic relationship between his performance and the vocals of old friend Mark Lanegan 'From the Zodiacal Light' meanwhile takes a late 60s San Franciscan freakedout jazzrock transcendence and quickly reappropriates that sound into a musky torch song for the witching hour This contradictive tension between a band pushing itself everforward whilst surveying their history is reflected in the albums twin recording locales The foundation of the record was laid in the mystic desert high lands of Joshua Tree California where Earth recorded hour after hour of meditations on each tracks central theme at Rancho de la Luna Upon returning to Seattle these were edited arranged and expanded upon at Avast with the help of longterm collaborator Randall Dunn who was previously at the helm for the Hex The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull and Hibernaculum sessions Thick dense and overdriven melodically rich and enveloping 'Primitive And Deadly' is Earth reaffirming their position as a singular point in the history of rock.
Tracklist
1. Torn By the Fox of the Crescent Moon
2. There Is a Serpent Coming
3. From the Zodiacal Light
4. Even Hell Has Its Heroes
5. Rooks Across the Gate
6. Badgers Bane
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