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- Summary: The latest release from the band led by Ben Chasny was inspired by a dream about constructing a spacecraft on the moon.
- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 23 out of 25
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Sep 20, 2012These eight songs are indeed everything you'd expect from this reconfigured version of Comets on Fire with Chasny at the controls. It's a purely transcendental synthesis of heavy folk meditation and interstellar overdrive.
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Aug 21, 2012A quite astonishing record then, and one which establishes Chasny as a bona fide guitar god, proves that Comets On Fire are much missed, and knocks the notion of guitar music being dead into a cocked hat.
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Aug 15, 2012Get lost in the haze.
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MagnetAug 23, 2012Ascent is an album that manages to find the perfect harmony between the normal and the weird, the dirty and the clean, the psychedelic and the straight. Put it in your psych-rock emergency kit. [No.90, p.60]
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Aug 24, 2012Despite a sharp shift in direction, the spirit of Ascent floats--sometimes upwards, at times skittish and swooping underneath clouds--but nonetheless rising.
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Aug 31, 2012This is a solid set of space rock that will melt plenty of faces, even though it doesn't seek nirvana in Six Organs of Admittance's usual ways.
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Aug 16, 2012Ascent is still recognizably Six Organs of Admittance, but it's often hazier, heavier and trippier.
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