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Doomsdayer's Holiday

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Not sure what this other reviewer, R.W. Wade, is talking about...he probably should have laid off the pipe before reviewing...but this is my favorite Grails album yet.

I've been a fan for a while and have all their albums (they also put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen), but Doomsdayer's Holiday is on a whole different level. Reincarnation Blues and Acid Rain are easily two of Grails' best. If you're unsure, download those two and listen - the whole album is in the same vein. The album seems to pick up where Take Refuge in Clean Living left off, and the result is immaculate. ALthough their prior releases were unreal and completely unique, Grails have really grown into their sound. All the familiar Middle Eastern influences are still present, if not even more pronounced, and the light-to-dark contrasts add to the experience. The playing is tighter and the sound even better than before. The guitar work is more advanced and identifiable, and the drum work is absolutely fierce. Somehow this band keeps getting better. Buy this album NOW.

In real broad strokes, it seems that progressive rock took two paths. By far the most prominent seems a stylistic and aesthetic extension of the origins that ranges from the imitative to the profoundly innovative. The other, tangential path, incorporates the garage/noise/phonographer/punk influences that, to my ears anyway, revitalize the form. Grails may at times stray too far from the structured to the unstructured on this release, but hey: give a listen to "Reincarnation Blues" and help count out the number of stylistic nods. A meticulous and careless record -- God Speed You, Grails.

A Forest of Amanita muscaria and from one(or two) emerges The Grail WE all search for it and now it is found as we lay sidebysideunderneath andover we float and become this feast for the senses A MIXTURE A PLETHORA of Psych Tablets Elixirs Sacraments Finger Foods!!!! Eat & be Happy!