Everything about this album is looooooonnnnng, including the amount of time it has been on my review "to do list" (about 7 years - my bad!). I first became aware of the Samsara Blues Experiment after a trip to Roadburn Festival in 2011, and I fell in love with their excellently balanced heavy / psych approach to prog. The songs are meandering, jam-like, but held together by an underpinning heavyness with stops the record from flying too far off the handle into self-love of the guitar variety. Frittering away in almost inprovisational ecstasy one moment, and then rolling out the big guns for slightly bombastic but ultimately satisfying stoner rock the next.
It is a long distance trip - it literally says so on the tin, so clunk-click kids, and enjoy.
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