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EARTH:
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
INFINITE RIVER:
Infinite River includes three key figures of Detroit's storied underground sound legacy: Gretchen Gonzales (Universal Indians, Slumber Party), Warren Defever (His Name is Alive), and Joey Mazzola (Detroit Cobras, Sponge). The band first incubated in distance and downtime of early 2020, and emerged as an oozing, spacy sparkle of improvised psychedelia. Their first two form-shifting albums, Prequel and Space Mirror were released months apart in 2023, and both were assembled from various pathfinding recording sessions tracked in the band's earliest days. The spiritual drones and stargazing tones of Infinite River's nascent phases take on bolder force and format with newest work, Tabula Rasa, an album that crystalizes the band's free-floating energy into more easily recognizable song structures, but loses none of their mystical power in the transformation.