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Earth - Primitive and Deadly

Review by Tristan Bath

Earth are masters of their game, making music that’s bigger and more powerful than anything mere mortals should be able to create.»

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The first Earth album to feature vocals since Kurt Cobain sang on their debut EP - Legendary vocalist Mark Lanegan (Queens Of The Stone Age, Screaming Trees) sings on two songs on the album. Sub Pop recording artists Rose Windows' vocalist Rabia Shaheen Qazi delivers a incredible vocal performance on the song: 'From The Zodiacal Light'. Renowned guitarist: Brett Netson (Built to Spill) is the featured 2nd guitarist on the entire album. Earth's career, like its music, has always been a slow, deliberate progression. Each record slightly removed from the last, a constant refinement of a singular vision. Dylan Carlson has remained focused throughout on coaxing moments of strange beauty and reflection from "the riff". This elemental foundation of rock is refracted, in their earliest recordings, through the prism of sheer volume and feedbacking drone or via a sparse unraveling take on folk. With 'Primitive And Deadly', Earth's tenth studio collection, Carlson and long term cohort, drummer Adrienne Davies, manage to come full circle twenty-five years in the making, whilst exploring new directions in their music. For the first time in their diverse career, they allow themselves to be a rock band, freed of adornment and embellishment.
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