Naam
Naam

The Naam, which consists of Ryan Lugar (guitar and vocals), John Bundy (bass and vocals), and Eli Pizzuto (drums). A New York trio dedicated to the most evolved heavy-psych rock, steeped in psychedelic mysticism, skillfully alternating with hard-rock and stoner bursts.

You might call it a hodgepodge, but the opentrack ("Kingdom") is already a very eloquent manifesto of the Naam project: 16 minutes in which a funereal doom crescendo rises into a hieratic and powerful rock, with vaguely Zeppelin-like reminiscences (but perhaps it would be better to mention Hawkwind), and then dissolves into solemn, oriental-flavored regurgitations, confirming the foreshadowing of the artwork.

The entire album is a boiling cauldron, a scorching magma from which, from time to time, tremendous rock bubbles and dense psychedelic syrups surface, exploding in the listener's ears. And damn... I assure you that it’s a great blast for the eardrums. The remaining 9 tracks are an imaginative rollercoaster between these aforementioned tormented souls of rock. A hallucinated sabbat where old wicked masters (Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Sleep) and new shamans (Earth, Ancestors, Om) are invoked in turn in a vertiginous sonic whirl that will take you far away, materializing into an admirable synthesis. A blend that rises to a new and coherent stature, well free from sterile citation, delivering an excellent debut with solid foundations and a band for which I would dare to predict a future of great depth.

A nice distorted and lucid journey at the same time, a vortex of deep trance, a frenetic and obsessive tribal dance, explosions and blows of pure malice, a cosmic ritual from which you will wake up fully satisfied if what you were looking for was an hour of (un)healthy escape from reality. This is Naam.

Recommended.