THE ELECTRIC BIBLE | CHAPTER 375

The UK psych-rock resurgence reached an extreme with the recordings of underground unit Skullflower, whose brand of abstract noise-rock is showcased to crushing effect on Xaman. This album – also released in a longer CD version with more tracks – uses electric guitar feedback as a destructured weapon over trance-inducing rhythmic pulses and crashing percussion, a trope taken to its ultimate on the 26-minute “Wave”, a pure and malevolent expression of chaotic noise.