Blog: Parasites & Sycophants

Black Angels:: Directions To See A Ghost

The Black Angels - Doves - live Wiltern 3/30/08
Certainly, with their second album, Directions To See A Gh ost, the Austin, Texas group Black Angels have forged deeper into the aural mysteries. Dark and foreboding, Directions To See A Ghost , is a sort of walls of colored textured sound extravaganza, dripping with molten psychedelia magic potion made for experienced psychic travelers. Full of fluttering sounds, drenched in reverb and hypnotics, and complete with some equally capable vocal work that often evokes thoughts of Grace Slick laid over a field of splintering drones. Unfortunately, ipod lovers, Directions To See A Ghost will totally defy [...]