Didn't know Psych/Folk was a thing? Well clearly you need to get to one of Six Organs Of Admittance's live shows. Active since 1998, the band are largely associated with the New Weird America Movement due to their mind bending cross overs between folk, electro and psychedelic.
Although relying heavily on guitars to make their unique sound, the band take influences from Eastern music which include chimes, drones and various percussive elements. As you can imagine, their live show is quite an impressive stage display with all these difference components coming together to make innovative, bizarre tracks. Illuminated in a hazy, pink glow, the band play cult classics such as 'Close To The Sky' with it's prolonged riffs and distorting, reverberated hums. The band are not particularly charismatic, but as an audience you enter into their strange musical zone where everything seems more intensified and you have to concentrate harder due to the fact that their music can veer in different directions at any time.
Often merging tracks from one to the other, giving the audience little chance to applaud between means at times you feel like you're watching some sort of classical performance as opposed to a guitar band. The response they receive at the end is entirely justified as the audience are returned from the intensity and you revel in what you've just seen, impressive stuff.
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