Botanist - Cicatrix / Diamond Brush (Clear)

Botanist - Cicatrix / Diamond Brush (Clear)San Francisco post black metal outfit BOTANIST and Los Angeles based electronic project THIEF release the split album "Cicatrix Diamond Brush". Despite their stylistic differences, both bands have much in common. They were both conceived and are mostly recording as solo projects run by a single mastermind. Both multi instrumentalists recruit live members to put their music on the stage. Yet the connection between BOTANIST's Otrebor aka Roberto

TAPHOS & UNDERGANG

they join forces

homespun method certainly finds it's way into the sound of the album

Ed Hill and Larry Strickland (members of Presley’s longtime backup group

and doomy bit-crushed psych

Spectral Devastation

'Blueprint' adds even more depth

proud tribute from the Spaceman himself

During the extensive touring period that made up most of 2022 for me

John Richardson

the project combines striking original folk songs

The trivial street scenes lipsticked by well-loved decades are fully recognized in Been Stellar's hail of guitar tones and insistent lyrical earnesty