Passover by Black Angels

Passover, the 2006 album from Austin's Black Angels, came out on Light in the Attic Records, and it doesn't hide its record collection. The band formed in May 2004 and named itself after the Velvet Underground's "The Black Angel's Death Song", and this record follows that lead straight into the fog: droning guitars, grooves that ride one riff until it turns into a trance, and vocals drifting in from somewhere dark and far away.

"Young Men Dead" is the calling card, a slow, menacing crawl that sets the tone for everything around it. Passover followed the self-titled The Black Angels and cleared the path for Directions to See a Ghost, and it plants this band firmly in heavy, hypnotic psychedelic rock territory.

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