Naam
Vow

THE REVIEW

Alright,

You are already familiar with Naam, esteemed audience, as I have adequately enlightened you about their phenomenal first album here.

So, it’s known, we are in the presence of high priests of a psych and lysergic gestalt, but along the tracks of this second full length, we can also find some new nuances.

Among moments of connection and liquid interludes float the usual lysergic blows, this time inlaid with organs and keyboards of a clear seventies origin (Vow, Pardoned Pleasures).

Your minds will be hurled into space aboard waves of heavily hard rock electronics (Of The Hour), tightly held by the slightly oriental thread that runs through the 11 tracks.

Shamanic tribal rhythms with nearly Tool-like echoes (Beyond) and often chanting vocal lines complete a certainly allusive picture (the Zeppelin references are all too easy, then Sabbath, Om, Hawkwind … in short, the usual) but with outcomes that are not slavish.

Outcomes that catapult among the stars, as others have already done, where it’s always a pleasure to go.

It doesn’t matter if others have already taken us up there.

The important thing is to get there, once more.

Altered.