Hexvessel
No Holier Temple (2lp)
Repress of 2012 album on yellow vinyl. Psychedelic forest folk band Hexvessel, from Finland, return with their second full-length album! 'No Holier Temple' is the highly anticipated follow up to 2011's critically acclaimed debut album, Dawnbearer, that Roadburn Festival dubbed as "a passionate, urgent and gorgeously strange musical spell. 'No Holier Temple' fuses the acoustic '70s folk vibe of its predecessor into a more psychedelic, electric, doom-folk sound with Manzarek-like keys, screeching rhythmic Velvet Underground violins, Miles Davis trumpets and hypnotic freakouts. Inspired by the progressive, spaced-out haze of bands like Amon Düül II, Van Der Graaf Generator and Ultimate Spinach, whose song 'Your Head Is Reeling' they cover with religious abandon. Their sound now expands outward from their eerie, signature, ritual-esque intros into a genre-twisting cauldron of otherworldly rock and the late-night, dreamy spoken-word of artists such as Jim Morrison ('An American Prayer') and Ken Nordine.