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Feb 20, 2015Devising a new way of playing heavy music is nothing if not a brave undertaking, and Hexadic rewards significantly with each repeated listen.
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Feb 17, 2015Hexadic is a dramatic shift for Six Organs of Admittance, lurching into noise and abstraction with hardly a nod to guitar folk or psychedelic rock.
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Feb 10, 2015The constantly-disruptive feel of Hexadic makes it perhaps the most consistent Six Organs albums to date.
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Feb 13, 2015Hexadic is louder and more gnarly than anything else he's done under this moniker.
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Feb 12, 2015Hexadic is most certainly a challenging and confusing album and one that can, at times, be a struggle to listen to. It is worth persevering however, for there are flashes of brilliance to be found in the constant battle between control and abandon.
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Feb 10, 2015Albums such as this one will often be defined as ‘difficult,’ and the love of its content will derive more from muso appreciation than genuine affection. Six Organs of Admittance have sidestepped this by crafting a piece of work that diefies categorisation: it feels mathematically precise, painstakingly composed, entirely freeform and joyfully performed.
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The WireFeb 4, 2015Hexadic blurs limes between melodic theory and personal spiritual working, presenting an alchemy of number as a system of creative liberation. [Feb 2015, p.52]
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UncutFeb 4, 2015[The Hexadic System] sounds complicated, but primarily this is a guitar record. [Mar 2015, p.81]
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Feb 18, 2015Hexadic works best when Chasny dials down the guitar squall and channels his energies towards more nuanced fare.
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Feb 11, 2015Six Organs of Admittance has rightly earned a reputation for innovation, but with Hexadic, Chasny risks straying too far from the realm of palatable sound.