ACROSS TUNDRAS - Electric Relics - 2013 (320kbps mp3) torrent

Much of the tone for Electric Relics — which is upwards of Across Tundras‘ ninth full-length, the prolific trio now based in Nashville, Tennessee, and releasing music through their own Electric Relics imprint — is set by the six-minute opening track, “Pining for the Gravel Roads.” Amid one of the record’s catchiest musical progressions, guitarist/vocalist Tanner Olson repeats the resonant titular line, “Lately I’ve been pining for the gravel roads/Of my childhood home,” and thus provides a de facto summary not only of the perspective from which Electric Relics draws stylistic and thematic base, but also of the greater crux of Olson‘s work with Across Tundras. It’s as though he distilled the entire catalog of LPs, EPs, splits, solo-projects and the rest to a single lyric, and if it’s a bit of self-reflection from the band — the lineup of the trio completed by bassist/vocalist Mikey Allred (also synth, Mellotron, trombone) and drummer Casey Perry — it’s accompanied by a corresponding self-reliance. In addition to releasing the 180 gram gatefold vinyl themselves, Olson and Allred also helmed the recording, and Perry built and photographed the model for the album’s cover, and their know-how is no less prevalent in terms of their songwriting and aesthetic than it is in the practicalities of pressing and releasing. Nearly a decade on from getting together, Across Tundras have constructed a niche almost entirely their own of Americana-infused heavy psychedelic rock, richly ambient and reliant particularly in the case of Electric Relics on a pervasive sense of open space within the material. That’s true of the wistful, tonally-weighted sway enacted by “Pining for the Gravel Roads” and remains the uniting factor of the otherwise deeply varied work through to the Spaghetti Western gallop that closes the side B finale “Unfortunate Son.” Whatever they want to do with their sound, they’ve got the process down at this point and they know how to tie it together for a full-length flow. In just under 41 minutes, Electric Relics engages a flurry of ideals, both idolizing an unknowable past and seeking to create something whole and new from it.
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