True Widow As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth

Mexican Summer present "As High As The Highest Heavens And From The
Center To The Circumference Of The Earth" by True Widow due for release
on the 13th May 2016.
Here is a band that has figured out how to play music that is traditionally
recognized as "heavy" and "slow," on traditional rock instruments, in a way
that few have been able to accomplish: a melancholy, meditative approach
to songwriting and soundscape that draws you in. They figured this out in
the space of one album a self-titled debut from 2008. On As High As the
Highest Heavens, they refine the work even further. Big guitar, bigger
drums and the biggest bass effortlessly recreate the unending skies of
prairie America, where storms blow across with fury, horizons are
unencumbered by the choke of skyscrapers and electric light, and the
atmosphere pushes you down. A rumbling backdrop of distortion churns
away, both behind and within True Widow's plaintive song structures, but
never overpowers it. Across a 50-minute runtime, the nine songs here
range from excavated alt-rock anthems ("Night Witches," "Skull Eyes" ) to
methodical epics like "Boaz" and "Blooden Horse," to triumphant bulldozers
of sound like "NH" which splits the difference between dirge and hymn, the
instruments staring into the ground while D.H. and Nikki's voices ascend to
the clouds.