Drone Maintenance

3rd album from Massachusetts artist Daryl Shepard, who plays mantra-like psychedelic desert-scapes interspersed with short samples of sci-fi space station voices. Guitar notes evolve in hypnotic repetition as they move toward a just-out-of-reach finale. Mechanistic percussion clicks behind guitar-hero ethnic ragas. A deceptively simple sounding dramatic flair of stinging blues notes pierces its backing atmospheric drone. And, finally, a snail-slow metal monster screams through the universe. Sometimes recalls band artists like Black Sun Ensemble, Sandy Bull, early Dave Edmunds with Love Sculpture, Music Blues.