Earth- Primitive and Deadly (2014)

Why is it that my favourite music made this decade (for half a week, at least) tends to be drone doom made either in Norway or (as here) Washington state, and fronted by Dylan Carlson. a man famous for supplying a certain firearm to Kurt Cobain? Well, I've has a bottle of wine- it's the Chrimbo limbo and we (Mrs Llamastrangler is gaming) are on our own for the first time in years as Little Miss Llamastranger has just left for a week with the in-laws which is.... weird, liberating (lie-ins!) and actually quite heartbreaking  as I miss my little girl so much and it's been a few hours.

But this album by Earth feels right- slow, light on vocals and replicating the effects of trance with guitar, bass and drums for us long haired men who may have large collections of rock records but sort of regret never getting into rave and, yes, especially Gabber- I love the hardcore type of hardcore, especially Evil Activities. Earth (we shall come to Conan and Sunn O))) later) scratch that itch in a way that this 42 year old veteran of proper, Jack Endino produced, Charles Peterson photographed Grunge, can enjoy and love.

This album rocks. Their other stuff is pretty much the same. It is, I suppose, relatively obscure. So check it out.