Album Reviews

Black Math Horseman - Wyllt

Apocalyptic visions have never sounded as alluring as on Black Math Horseman’s debut album, Wyllt. With serpentine slide guitar crawling behind the heavy melodies, Wyllt is a slow burn of rock that swells into a heavy bombast. Imagine Godspeed You! Black Emperor with delicate, droning female vocals. Yet Black Math Horseman differentiates themselves from the relatively recent swell of stoner rockers by making selective omissions. Dispensing with the guitar solos that push psych-rock into musical masturbation, Black Math Horseman focuses on creating sonic landscapes that move with the ominous and foreboding beauty of a glacier. Gone are the guitar harmonies and acoustic interludes that have crept into much of the heavy rock circuit; in its place come mood and movement, as the band’s delectably gloomy slow-core seeps like oil into the ocean.

By Drew Tewksbury

from Musica Universalis column in Flaunt Magazine, Issue 103 May 2009

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