Written and recorded over 18 months, Portland-based Grails returns with their new album to be released on October 7 on Temporary Residence. Entitled Doomsdayer’s Holiday, the album is an even heavier and darker work of psychedelics and riffs.
Coming on the heels of their EP Take Refuge in Clean Living, the group also found inspiration in the unlikeliest of places: 70s film noir and free jazz compositions. Besides the darker sound, though, the album is rife with an impressive roster of musician collaborators. Steven Wray Lobdell of Faust and Earth/Sunn O))) producer Randall Dunn lent their engineering skills to the record, and Sun City Girls‘ Alan Bishop acts as guest vocalist on “Predestination Blues,” an ominous new track.
For a band that’s been together for nearly a decade, it’s clear they’re still pulling out all the stops to bring fans the album they’ve been anticipating since last year.
Doomsdayer’s Holiday tracklisting:
1. Doomsdayer’s Holiday
2. Reincarnation Blues
3. The Natural Man
4. Immediate Mate
5. Predestination Blues
6. X-Contaminations
7. Acid Rain
Check out the video for “More Extinction” off the group’s most recent album, Burning Off Impurities:
Here’s another video of the group performing live at Spanish Moon in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the Spring of 2007:
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MySpace: www.myspace.com/grailsongs