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This twenty minute tape from California duo Robedoor provides two great ecstatic drones, and as opposed to their recent Unsummoning CD on Not Not Fun, the sound is much less harsh, making it a much easier recording to get lost in. The A-side, "Skeleton Feathers," sounds like a Native American hijacking a carriage and whipping the hell out of its horses in the getaway, speeding along the bumpy hills and plains of the Midwest, hatchet still fresh with blood. A steady click-clack drum pound builds into a fast gallop as oversaturated vocals roar out like a doom metal guitar hook, sounding like the Skaters boys soloing overtop a Davenport jam from the pasture. The B-side, "Archaeopteryx Sacrifice," is perhaps even more sinister, mixing gentle droning Eastern folk tones and devilish sonic decay. The song starts with only the gentle flowing tones, but slowly and gradually thick, rough bass notes creep in from below. The black fire of the bass crumbles the limited spectrum of the casssette, not detracting from the genuinely lovely drone but tempering it and making it that much more powerful. An amazing track that hopefully reaches more ears than this almost sold out cassette.

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