DOOMSDAYER'S HOLIDAY

Between their debut Burden of Hope and their sixth, the present Doomdayer?s Holiday, it?s been six years and just about as many albums, but you can?t say that Grails was set up to change the world. Besides a lush illustrated booklet filled naked mademoiselles in forest, the group is now a quartet as Tim Horner is now out of the picture, but there is a violin in the guest instruments. In that very list of guests, we find also Earth?s Randall Dunn and Sun City Girls? Bishop on a rare sung track.

So what has changed in some 5 years is that the post rock has blossomed into a slightly psychedelic post rock, but remains firmly in the post rock realm. Yet, this appears to be their spacier or psychier album yet as there are a few tracks that veer semi-cosmic via a touch of Indian music, but this is nothing that wasn?t already present in a form or another on their debut album. Don?t get me wrong here, Grails is not static, they slowly moves within the boundaries of their musical realm they set up early on and they explore. For example here, metal is a usually present ingredient (but generally lesser amounts), but here it?s one of the key elements of this album, even inducing more eventful music while not being necessarily so.

Although I?ve seen the group live (in support of Woven Hand in the spring of 09) and they were a sextet, there was a psychedelic dimension to their music that expressed itself to semi-Ozric feel, which I think is totally absent in this latest album. In either case, and despite the fact I haven't heard the intermediary albums, Doomsdayer's

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