IN A FOREST

Mushroom Giant is 20 years old, he released his 4th album transcending his psyche-rock, post-stoner rock spectrum. He composes titles where different musical flows alternate and follow each other, between shadow and light, with effective crescendo and kinematics; in the footsteps of Russian Circles, God Is An Astronaut, Mono, Pelican or the most recent Sleepmakeswaves.

'Owls' opens with distorted arpeggios and heavy drums, a sound borrowing from stoner; a sound composed in the arid Australian plains, raw, heavy, progressive, incisive; the 2nd frame with deafening bass on austere ambient post-rock kinematics. 'Vestige' soft and mysterious arpeggio bringing an agreed latent atmosphere where the guitar dictates its voice; psychedelic rock, delicate and rhythmic before the frenzied final solo and a sound of jungle. 'Earthrise' follows, tune all up, moving from a melancholy stoner filled with beauty to roaring cinematic lights, reverberating moon-sunny clarity, sound reminiscent of the Monkey3 for efficiency, sublimely austere. 'Aire River Rapids' changes to dynamic, snarky rock tune with tempo-setting drums and majestic, emphatic guitars. 'Mountain Ash' continues higher, energetic; percussive mix with intoxicating riffs; a conglomeration of Black Sabbath, Vai and Blackmore for a heavy supercharged musical beef. 'And the Earthly Remains' continues with a nauseating unstructured suite bringing a bluesy-space solo with rusty musical saw before the final roaring solo and 'The Green Expanse' continues again with an atmospheric intro with bubbles of acids or mushrooms of the cosmos; an expansive, floydian ambient sound with drum rolls and airy guitars; on a post-rock with progressive reminiscence offering a breathtaking finale.

Mushroom Giant released a classic orchestral post-rock album; conceptual tracing paintings of abstract musical images between beauty and danger; cinematic with breaks and tempo changes for long wanderings in the Australian plains; refinement of rhythms and energy offered for a hypnotic, psychedelic and haunting ballad; more than sound, a bewitching musical space tinged with dreams.