Dylan Carlson - Conquistador (Sargent House, 2018)

With Earth seemingly on hiatus, Dylan Carlson has gone the solo route. A couple albums released under the Drcarlsonalbion moniker and then this, his first under his given name. It's a scant 32 minutes, and described by Carlson as the soundtrack to an imaginary Western. This is a little odd, because if you recall Earth's mighty comeback album Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method was kind of a soundtrack to a Western that didn't exist - specifically, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Western themes have been a staple of current-era Earth so if this sounds like well-trod ground to you, well, it is. It's a mostly solo electric guitar effort with tracks ranging from droning and methodical like you saw on Hex to more noise-oriented, ragged, harsher explorations. Which is to say it's all well and good but no doubt a minor entry in the ever-expanding discography of Mr. Carlson.

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