5xLP box from these Swedish psych/prog titans. Compiles the absolutely legendary Sov Gott Rose-Marie, the less interesting Hemat (released as Harvester) and then three LPs of rarities which are the real prize. I won't waste more bytes on Sov Gott but drop everything and seek it out now. The rarities are awesome, especially LPs 3 and 4 which contain three tracks apiece, all six long droning stomps a la "I Mourn You" from Sov Gott. Some of these must have ended up as Trad Gras Och Stenar tunes (the band after Harvester), one is a longer variant of the Sov Gott main theme and another appeared in much shorter form on Hemat but they all sound great and absolutely essential. The last rarities LP contains mostly shorter tracks, the band sounding a little more in Can form. These are rougher, jammier, more demo-sounding tunes but check out "Dada Babble Boogie" an absolute stomper. Great collection overall.
I keep up with Sunburned only intermittently these days, they seem to be taking a more rock-ist approach lately. Like this one. Each track is about 4-5 minutes of pretty ramshackle, jammy, funky, boogie rock...almost spoiled by the throaty, beery vocals shouted over the top of each one of these tunes with nonsensical platitudes. I almost shut it off after a couple tracks but I stuck it out and kinda came around on some level. I was oddly reminded of My War era Black Flag sludge punk. The band sez "these Holy Grail fueled recordings are a mix of iphone and zoom recordings run through garageband, reaper and some plug-ins. We're still working on the much more listener-friendly Black Dirt session..." and point taken, listener friendly this ain't.
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