by
Earth
- Record Label: Southern Lord Records
- Release Date: Oct 25, 2010
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Dec 15, 2010A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction is yet more proof that Earth were, and indeed still are, vitally different to so much of what's come before them, after them and even surrounded them.
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Dec 15, 2010One of the most interesting and rewarding things about hearing the tracks as they appear on this release, is knowing that they are presented here in their earliest incarnations, Earth's chrysalis stage, if you will.
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Dec 15, 2010If it's been years since you've listened to these songs, as it had been for me when this reissue arrived, you might believe you're hearing them for the first time. And if you've never heard Earth this early, get ready to change your conceptions: The fountainheads of drone metal have been surprisingly versatile from the start.
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Dec 15, 2010Overall, this is nothing less than the sound of an entire music genre shifting on its axis.
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Kerrang!Dec 14, 2010This quality archive release is a timely reminder of the strange beauty and hypnotic potency of mainman Dylan Carlson's vision.[13 Nov 2010, p.51]
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Dec 15, 2010Heard as a whole, this set doesn't sound nostalgic but revelatory, for the simple fact that its slow, deliberately restrained brutality is not only engaging, but hypnotic, doom-laden, serpentine, even beautiful.
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UncutJan 24, 2011In places it's impressively monolithic. [Feb 2011, p.82]
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Q MagazineDec 23, 2010Drone metal linchpin, with guest Kurt Cobain. [Jan. 2011, p. 150]