Six organs of Admittance?

Okay, first new track from Hexadic here.

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/six-organs-of-admittance-wax-chance/s-aTF3A

i dig it

Oh man, this is great! It is definitely hitting his love of Japanese gnarl hard, cool move from him. I sure hope he tours this record in this style.

us dates

February 19, 2015 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR US
February 20, 2015 Electric Owl Vancouver CA
February 21, 2015 Sunset Tavern Seattle WA US
February 26, 2015 Bottom of the Hill San Francisco CA US
February 27, 2015 The Echo Los Angeles CA US
February 28, 2015 Soda Bar San Diego CA US
April 21, 2015 7th Street Entry Minneapolis MN US
April 22, 2015 The Frequency Madison WI US
April 23, 2015 Empty Bottle Chicago IL US
April 24, 2015 The Loving Touch Ferndale MI US
April 25, 2015 Club Cafe Pittsburgh PA US
April 26, 2015 DC9 Washington DC US
April 28, 2015 Boot & Saddle Philadelphia PA US
April 30, 2015 Baby's All Right Brooklyn NY US
May 01, 2015 Great Scott Allston MA US
May 02, 2015 Bar Le "Ritz" P.D.B. Montreal QC CA
May 03, 2015 Mavericks Ottawa ON CA
May 04, 2015 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto CA
May 06, 2015 Beachland Tavern Cleveland OH US
May 07, 2015 The Basement Columbus OH US
May 08, 2015 Zanzabar Louisville KY US
May 09, 2015 The Mill Iowa City IA US

could you give an example of "Japanese gnarl", b/c that makes me think of Merzbow/Masonna which is probably too much to hope for, maybe you mean White Heaven

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Damn man, to go to DC or not to go to DC. Wish there was another place close by they are playing, not a fan of DC shows at all for the most part.

think the closest gig for me is 11 hours away lol

Sleeve, it is pretty heavy with staggering kind of plodding rhythms and unhinged soloing. Reminds me some of Haino playing with Dead C a bit. Not Merzbow level gnarl though, and yeah some White Heaven I have heard would be a close-ish comparison. Some headier heads should weigh in though.

Oh man, I LOVE plodding rhythms!!

me too!

Tyler, he is taking a break between the Seattle and San Fran gigs, maybe you can cajole him your way. I also see he is off between DC and Philly. Charlottesville is a short-ish drive from both ....

ooooh good call re: haino. definitely hearing that too - awesome!!

i see where grandavis is coming from - that is a bit fushitsusha-ish. going back to plague lounge noise levels.

OK, sold

haha, this is killer. supremely nasty guitar tone.

Just saw "Pathetique" referenced by someone else in regards to this, so yeah we are not the only ones.

27 seconds in and i'm sold -- super nasty but also not aimless
love it
btw anyone looking to test out the hexadic method who needs some drums, lemme know! dang. this sounds good.

glad he is super loud again

Hahah, Ben just now on Twitter:

Thanks for the kind feedback on this song everyone. It's the pop song on the record. The rest is a bit heavier.

lol

rad

my older brother makes super heavy open-ended noisy improvisational rock and whenever he plays me his music there is always one song that is "the pop song". i totally get where ben is coming from here

I got Rallizes, Fushitusha, Overhang Party and noisy-era Marble Sheep vibes outta that track. Can't wait to hear this album.

finally got to listen to this and everybody otm, loved the super weird mix on the vocals and that strange little fast part

new one is sounding radical

It's extremely good, got the promo last week. Definitely one of his loud ones, possibly the loudest.

yeah -- makes Ascent seem pretty poppy by comparison. but i dig the singlemindedness here.

oh yeah. looking forward to this

Broken record time: man I hope to see this incarnation live.

Ben Chasny interview about the Hexadic system
http://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/features/8723

I don't really get any of that but I'm excited regardless

Just interviewed him earlier today, more to come...

i sorta get it, i think! he needs to figure out how to explain it a little more concisely though, lol

can't wait to hear it.

it sounds like a mixture of ideas taken from Eno, Braxton, Ornette, etc.

yeah, and as he mentions in the interview, morton feldman and his crew as well

hahah i didn't even get that far!

i don't think it sounds like anything groundbreaking but i love when people disappear inside their own systems

me too
love it
way better than a manifesto in terms of kooky behavior

So I did an interview and wrote a thing

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/six-organs-of-admittance-interview

Good piece! Would have loved to read the Dune stuff though, you tease.

Also, this album rules.

Hahah we barely got started on the Dune stuff, but we have ideas...

Anyway, stream now up at NPR.

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/08/383351951/first-listen-six-organs-of-admittance-hexadic

Yes! And cool piece Ned, but please make that Dune conversation happen.

should probably just be a whole publication devoted to psych-rockers talking about dune

Hah yeah man, I would read that. Also, I would read just about any interview with Ben. He is just such an engaging dude. The Ben/Elisa interview payoff is ridiculously high, folks just need to make them speak about stuff all the time.

cool ned!

This here record is a blast.

Co-sign 100%. This record rules. Touches on so much good guitar music, and Marc Masters hits up the territory nicely here:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20074-hexadic/

Hadn't hit me that Sightings was in the sound mix first time through, but "Wax Chance" does hit on certain aspects of the Sightings sound (definitely Morgan's singing at times), which is of course A-OK by me. I think I am going to need to get the deck of cards too.

Really enjoying track 4 off of this ("Hesitant Grand Light", one of the mellower jams).

Quick question for anyone who has any real liner notes or info: there are two guitars on the tune, an acoustic and an electric. Are the songs done live, meaning is there a second guitarist at times, or is all the guitar Ben's? I assume the latter, but just curious.

Also the piano on this record is really cool (when present). This Chasny as well, or again, a different ensemble for each particular song?