Vorhex Angel
DRAIN
Jun 12 (2-LP/CD) Jul 08 (digital)
via Soul Selects
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"Vorhex Angel—uniting former JEFF The Brotherhood brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall with Silver Synthetic's Kunal Prakash—excavate clanging bells, ominous toms, flutes, and droning distortion from some buried ritual, every note trembling as though the earth beneath it is shifting. Just when its esoteric heaviness threatens to collapse under its own weight, the trio slips into an unexpected English folk reverie, revealing a band interested in tension, transformation and brute force." —New Commute
"The record pushes the band far beyond the bounds of their shadowy beginnings, an intricate journey of tension and torsion, constantly working to wrestle with its love for beauty and its need for destruction." —Raven Sings the Blues
"The record pushes the band far beyond the bounds of their shadowy beginnings, an intricate journey of tension and torsion, constantly working to wrestle with its love for beauty and its need for destruction." —Raven Sings the Blues
If the Vorhex Angel’s two live releases and debut Heavenly are visceral (Raven Sings the Blues did name them “heirs to the maelstrom of High Rise”), then followup Drain stands in contrast as their cerebral offering. The sprawling experimental double album’s seven tracks guide the listener from morning to night with larger than life guitar solos, spaced-out drone excursions, and moments of potent intensity throughout. For the first time, we see Vorhex Angel trade their pummeling sonic onslaught for moody, dramatic pastures. The band—revealed to be brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood and Silver Synthetic’s Kunal Prakash—push the parameters of the Vorhex Angel concept outward, inviting new players into their circle, adding more risk and generating more reward.
“The shamanistic ying to the wild, feedback'd High Rise-style yang of the psych band's early material. Puts melodic sensibilities of Jeff the Brotherhood past to good use, stretches them into droning pastorals.” —Viking’s Choice
“For fans of Pink Floyd, Talk Talk, Neptunian Maximalism, slowcore, and that nagging feeling there’s a higher level of consciousness just out of our reach, DRAIN by Vorhex Angel journeys through the mind as the physical world slowly deteroriates outside of it with our half-finished attempts at enlightenment becoming increasingly worrying as reality nips at our heels.” —Outside Noise
Talkhouse: Vorhex Angel and Primitive Ring Chat About Drain
“For fans of Pink Floyd, Talk Talk, Neptunian Maximalism, slowcore, and that nagging feeling there’s a higher level of consciousness just out of our reach, DRAIN by Vorhex Angel journeys through the mind as the physical world slowly deteroriates outside of it with our half-finished attempts at enlightenment becoming increasingly worrying as reality nips at our heels.” —Outside Noise
Talkhouse: Vorhex Angel and Primitive Ring Chat About Drain