LEVIATHAN

When the tracklist immediately reads like a walking tour of Lovecraft, "The Odyssey", and Jules Verne, you know you're in for something awesome. Annot Rhul centres a rather eclectic album on various nautical themes, crossed deeply with those of madness. This is an album where you sail out too far, encounter sea monsters, dark auroras, and maddening islands, and then go through a horrifically constructed city of the damned to have some tea with The Elder Ones and The Other Gods. As for the all important sound, the whole gamut from soft and Floydian to dark, heavy, and reminiscent of Motorpsycho is crisscrossed wonderfully. Rhul does an excellent job of conveying spookiness, unease, and terror with a lot of the music here. You might forget that this is in fact a space rock album, at least at its core. Altogether, this is a masterful journey through all four corners of space and all seven seas. Recommended, especially in pairing with "The Death Defying Unicorn".