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Jul 25, 2012Strange, hypnotic and utterly transcendental.... Om's teachings have always been less about finding a goal than the overwhelming richness of the journey, and, with Advaitic Songs that journey is more glorious and all-consuming than ever before.
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Jul 27, 2012Om certainly absorb religious images from every corner of the Old World with a certain reckless abandon, but despite a wandering path that would find most lost in appropriative disrespect, it all seems to melt effortlessly together into the band's unique tapestry of the void.
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Jul 25, 2012OM delivers transcendental moments on Advaitic Songs, entrancing washes of mystic depth.
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Jul 20, 2012Advaitic Songs shares a lot of the same strengths as the recent output by Earth--every listen unfolds another texture, another line gets embedded in the brain.
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Jul 19, 2012With piano, female vocals, strings and extra percussion, this is the fullest, most expansive Om album to date.
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Aug 15, 2012Their best album to date, Advaitic Songs shows OM moving into modernity and relying less on tribalistic rhythms, but the sense of calmness will always be their signature.
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Kerrang!Aug 13, 2012Somewhat surprisingly, it lacks some of the droning, distorted fuzz of yore. [21 Jul 2012, p.53]
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MagnetJul 20, 2012Adviatic Songs shows the band musically reaching for extremely mystical heights. [No.89, p.57]
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Jul 19, 2012Despite all the mysticism, religion, tradition and history tied up in Advaitic Songs, this is a surprisingly accessible album, and one that finds OM at their best
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Jul 19, 2012Brain-rinsingly psychedelic without needing to tell you about it, they deserve to sit at the table with Current 93 and post-Syd/pre-stadium Pink Floyd.
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Jul 24, 2012Next to the realized space of OM's previous albums, which has always contributed greatly to the spiritual and meditative focus they convey, Advaitic Songs sounds flat, a detriment to the album which might otherwise be, next to their grandest, OM's most accomplished.
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Jul 27, 2012The paradox about them is this: With two people, Om sounded expansive; with more, they sound comparatively weak. The music is unmistakably theirs, but the intensity of it feels lost in the arrangements.
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Aug 24, 2012Advaitic Songs is Om 2.0's second full-length album, and it is far and away the most entrancing document the band has released.
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Jul 30, 2012With its obtuse rhythm and the inevitably impenetrable lyrics, Om offer their own truth, one with many questions and answers.
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Aug 2, 2012Advaitic Songs doesn't feature one of the lengthy, insistent, sense-dissolving tracks they usually supply. Instead the tracks feel restrained and poetic, but not always very substantial. A pity, but at the same time, Advaitic Songs does reward multiple listens. It's a subtle and meaningful album.
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The WireJul 24, 2012Despite the lack of actual bass frequencies on Advaitic Songs, Om frequently sound weighed down which isn't the same thing as sounding heavy. [Jul 2012, p.61]
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UncutJul 19, 2012Their ragtag religious signifiers, stretching from the Mediterranean to Bengal, feel like gap year blog entries, and Cisneros' wizened sage delivery is ludicrous. [Aug 2012, p.77]