Oh, sorry. Were you waiting for us? Over the last few days we’ve been trapped in “St. Anthony’s Fire,” a killer of a track from the upcoming album Aureola (Thrill Jockey, April 10, 2012), a dual effort from Arbouretum and Hush Arbors. Dave Heumann just cuts loose on the acid-rock epic, one of three tunes that bode well for the Baltimore band’s next disc, the follow-up to last year’s The Gathering.
Oh, did we drift away again? This time we haven’t been able to pull ourselves out of “Pontian Grave,” a massive twelve-minute psychedelic freak-out from Rhyton’s eponymously titled debut record (Thrill Jockey, January 2012). And just when we thought we’d gotten out, the Brooklyn band sucked us back in with “Shank Raids,” with Dave Shuford leading the group on another far-out, improvisational, psychedelic sojourn into the unknown and beyond. Arbouretum and Rhyton will be teaming up on Saturday night for what should be a mind-blowing experience at Death by Audio in Brooklyn.