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Oct 26, 201090The mix is somehow both spacious and full, with each instrument clearly audible at all times, yet making up one part of a majestic whole. This is a great psychedelic hard rock album, only occasionally returning to the sludgy metal of Kylesa's early releases.
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Oct 25, 201090Spiral Shadow might just be the album of the year so far. All hail the kings (and queen) of nouveau-prog.
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Nov 2, 201084Whether bellowed by Philip Cope or sung with witchy intensity by Laura Pleasants, just about every song has a chorus that immediately stamps itself on your brain. In that sense, Spiral Shadow is damn near a pop album.
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Nov 4, 201080In a career full of successful fusions of metal, psych, crusty punk and indie rock, Spiral Shadow is another triumph.
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Nov 4, 201080These perennial up-and-comers are now operating at an elite level. Welcome to the upper tier of American metal, kids.
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Nov 1, 201080Kylesa nods toward their feral past as choruses make muscular concessions to hardcore floor-punches. But other tracks are their artiest and dreamiest yet. [Nov/Dec 2010, p.96]
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Oct 25, 201080This is still towering, hazy, stoner metal--it's just shaped with more craft than once before and is therefore far more interesting. [16 Oct 2010, p.50]
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Nov 4, 201078Spiral Shadow assimilates both paradigms as if Jane's Addiction and Kyuss shared leathers.
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Oct 26, 201070The 78-minute Spiral Shadow supersizes everything, from song lengths to layers of deep-focus space-rock effects, but the sprawling songs are still built around riffs as sweaty as a south Georgia summer.