stoner rock / sludge metal
Ode To Io Deluxe Edition is an album by Swedish stoner/ sludge rock group Lowrider. Released on June 7, this Deluxe version of the album Ode To Io, almost eighty three minutes in length, has sixteen tracks: Caravan, Flat Earth, Convoy V, Dust Settlin', Sun Devil, Anchor, Texas pt. 1 & 2, Riding Shotgun, Saguaro, Ode to io, Lameneshma, The Gnome, The Serpent, The Sun, Shivaree, Ol' Mule Pepe, Upon the Dune and David William Hughes. A more fluid, organic and dynamic, yet expressively corrosive and wild-free type of stoner rock, Ode To Io is a majestic and sensational album, with versatile melodies, and amazingly lucid rhythmic passages, that are precisely envisioned with all the colossal stature that only a “savage” and “rude” genre like stoner rock could be able to fully propitiate. With abrasive guitar lines and ostensibly free-flowing solos, Lowrider presents us on this record a competent and extremely powerful set of songs, that showcases the best their genres of choice could ever achieve. But of course, all of this was brightly developed by the technical skills and the sagacious creativity designed by the combined talents and efforts of the band members.
With an interesting and graciously defined style of their own, Lowrider precedes to present very punctuated, but at the same time firmly spontaneous sonorous tonalities, that echoes on the reverberations of amazingly created melodies a purely intrinsic rebellious nature, that disperses from the richness of its proverbial content a formidable diversity that only a band with such versatile principles could ever conceive. Genuinely understanding and incorporating the true spirit of stoner rock – but adding to it the inherent individualities of their own singular sonorous flavors –, Lowrider manages to create a fabulous perception of their genres of choice. With an incisive vigor that has on pervasively sensible guitar lines the acute strength of a virtuous authenticity, Lowrider has conceived this album as one of the fundamental milestones of stoner rock.
Consciously promoting a precise evaluation in what concerns the density of their musical perceptions, Lowrider ignites the veracity of the genre by refreshing it in a more flexible and consistent shape, that filters and expands the cohesion of its harmonies by the technical abilities of a majorly convergent perspective, which may partially explain why their music sounds so pure, so honest, and so vehemently true to the roots. And yet, perfectly coated with an entirely new directive, responsible for their capacity to aggregate new elements into very traditional musical devices.
With a great perception of its own grandiosity, and intelligently expanding the boundaries of stoner rock to achieve something entirely new in a creative aspect, Lowrider has proved with this album that they certainly are one of the best groups of the genre in the contemporary underground scene. No doubt about it!
Wagner
With an interesting and graciously defined style of their own, Lowrider precedes to present very punctuated, but at the same time firmly spontaneous sonorous tonalities, that echoes on the reverberations of amazingly created melodies a purely intrinsic rebellious nature, that disperses from the richness of its proverbial content a formidable diversity that only a band with such versatile principles could ever conceive. Genuinely understanding and incorporating the true spirit of stoner rock – but adding to it the inherent individualities of their own singular sonorous flavors –, Lowrider manages to create a fabulous perception of their genres of choice. With an incisive vigor that has on pervasively sensible guitar lines the acute strength of a virtuous authenticity, Lowrider has conceived this album as one of the fundamental milestones of stoner rock.
Consciously promoting a precise evaluation in what concerns the density of their musical perceptions, Lowrider ignites the veracity of the genre by refreshing it in a more flexible and consistent shape, that filters and expands the cohesion of its harmonies by the technical abilities of a majorly convergent perspective, which may partially explain why their music sounds so pure, so honest, and so vehemently true to the roots. And yet, perfectly coated with an entirely new directive, responsible for their capacity to aggregate new elements into very traditional musical devices.
With a great perception of its own grandiosity, and intelligently expanding the boundaries of stoner rock to achieve something entirely new in a creative aspect, Lowrider has proved with this album that they certainly are one of the best groups of the genre in the contemporary underground scene. No doubt about it!
Wagner
