LP (emerald green/gold marbled)

BFR 033 / Blues Funeral Recordings

Embarking on a sleep-deprived road trance through High Plains iconography, Holus Bolus is bleak yet hopeful, a mix that is by now Lord Buffalo’s established custom blend.

While the quartet wades into the same murky waters as dark emotive brethren David Eugene Edwards/Wovenhand, All Them Witches, Emma Ruth Rundle, Earth/Dylan Carlson, Chelsea Wolfe and Nick Cave, the creative interplay of Middle Eastern influences and Western folk Americana takes the record in its own enveloping, meditative direction.