Celestiial – “Desolate North”
Some music gets slower and slower until it’s a downright slow-motion-turtle-sloth pace. The vocals are guttural, but they are not aggressive. Instead they sound like they are far, far away in a cave in the distant past in a land from pre-history. The percussion (drum machine?) plays slowly enough to allow time to go buy and cook a turkey, return and you won’t have missed a beat. This is an exaggeration, but only slightly. Imagine: the sound of the beach (the intermittent waves = “drums”) accompanied by some occasional distant guttural vocals. The songs: there are pauses in between the long periods of