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As far as the Southern Hemisphere goes, Australia's budding underground has often played second fiddle to that of it's island neighbor, New Zealand. But a new crop of Aussies is levelling the playing field. Leading the way is the brother/sister duo of Michael and Kristina Donnelly AKA Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. These cosmic travelers are soaked to the bone in dust, like relics from the past. They speak only in tongues and send out shortwave psychedelic radio transmissions into the bleeding edges of drugged-out folk sludge.
BOTOS' organic compositions are familiar to many by now. After a string of CD-R releases on Time-Lag, Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, and others, this is their first pro-pressed offering. Building on transcendent themes and saturating everything in an all-encompassing puff of bong smoke. Endless walls of instrumentation create artificial bounderies that the Donnellys destroy with far-reaching, hypnotic drones. By the time"Goodbye" comes to a grinding halt, it feels like the stuff of legend. Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood are only interested in blowing your skull to smithereens while cradling you in their arms. They are simply magnificent, and there aren't many doing it better these days.
The first 500 copies come in silkscreened sleeves done by the New Zealand arthouse/imprint, United Fairy Moons.
Press for previous BOTOS releases:
Animal Speak is a pretty great record, completely deserving the sort of attention devoted to more well-established acts that operate in this same vein. - Delusions of Adequacy
Animal Speak is the sort of mind-bending album that is bound to exhaust as much as mesmerize and I can unreservedly recommend it to everyone even remotely interested in the drone/folk/psych/improv universe. This feels like a monumental release to my ears and as such it’s one of my 2004 favorites. - Mats Gustafsson, The Broken Face