REDLIGHT

Grails

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Psychedelic/Space Rock

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3.38 | 13 ratings | 1 reviews | 38% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 2004

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Dargai (4:52)
2. The Volunteer (5:56)
3. Worksong (2:35)
4. High & Low (4:04)
5. Reprieve (3:11)
6. Redlight (4:25)
7. New Lystra (2:39)
8. Fevers (6:58)
9. Alms (2:53)
10. Word Made Flesh (4:17)

Total Time 41:50

Line-up / Musicians

- Alex John Hall / guitar
- Zak Riles / electric & lap steel guitars, dulcimer, Optigan
- Timothy Horner / violin
- William Slater / bass, guitar, piano, Rhodes
- Emil Amos / drums, lap steel guitar

With:
- Steve Mackay / tenor saxophone (2)

Releases information

Artwork: Alex Hall

CD Neurot Recordings ‎- NR 034 (2004, US)

LP Robotic Empire ‎- robo 054 (2006, US)
LP Pamlico Sound Mailorder ‎- PMLO 002 (2010, US) Remastered by Carl Saff

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GRAILS Redlight ratings distribution

3.38
(13 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (38%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (23%)
Good, but non-essential (31%)
Collectors/fans only (8%)
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)

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Review by Sean Trane
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Folk

Second album from this good post rock group that dares to step out of the (very) limited boundaries of the genre. The unchanged line-up allowed the band to take up from where they'd let things off in the debut Burden Of Hope, which was pretty straight forward Post rock with a slight Asian twist. This Asian feel was replaced by a folkier atmosphere, sometimes reminiscent of Woven Hand feel is more present, even if the artwork is much more Western- bound (Roman) ruins on this booklet.

Indeed, the group has learned the tricks of the trade with the debut album and now aspires to greater freedom of movement; thus they regularly step out of the allowed post perimeter and take on a few psych flavours, but this still way too shy to make a real difference. Grails does remains a post rock group with all of the rules and the dogma of the genre dully respected , including dynamic moods swings of the bands, especially though Alex's guitars. Most tracks are slow ?starting and feature the usual build ?up/crescendo effect in the pure tradition of the genre, but some songs actually never leave ground zero and remain gloomy (such as Alms)

Not yet a grand album from this Oregon outfit, but I must say I prefer a Grails album anytime over much more prominent and better-known post rock groups

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