When you have reached my ripe old age, you start to wonder
if there is really anything that is going to surprise you. I like to read, but
I wonder if there will really be any more stories that take me by surprise. I
like movies, but again, I wonder if there will be that one killer movie that
makes me want to watch over and over. Sometimes I think the same way about
music, too, but with that one, I should know better. There is always a band out
there that will bring something new to the table and make you feel alive. The
trick sometimes is in finding them.
With Infinite Flux,
I just showed up at their CD release show. I was actually there to see another
band, but does that really matter in the long run? They played a fantastic set
and I was very pleased that I could buy the CD and enjoy their music as much as
I wanted to. I have listened to it daily since the show. And since they are a
local band, I’ll get to see them again. A person just should not have this much
winning in their life, but I’ll take it.
You want to know what they sound like? They do the heavy
rock thing, a little sludgy, a little on the stoner side. I should emphasize
the heavy part. As in, heavy like a woolly mammoth stomping through an ice
field. They write these incredible riffs that are an ancient form of heaviness,
that just connect with the listener as though they have always been out there,
and we’ve been hearing them, but we were waiting for a band to put them all
together like this. Their music sends out tendrils that sink into the primeval,
primordial part of the brain, and you just lock into it, and you just get it.
Music that you can close your eyes and bob your head to, music that feels like
it means something.
My favorite tracks are “Solar Sacrifice” and “Ashes”, but
they are all good. And when I say that they seem like they have been around
forever, I don’t at all mean to say that this band is derivative or that they
steal their riffs from others. They just connect so instantaneously that you feel
like you’ve been listening to them forever. If you love you some stoner rock,
track this thing down. During the show they said that the CDs would not be
available until after the first of the year (2016), but seek this one out. It
is more than worth any effort you have to put into acquiring it.
- ODIN
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