O'Brother Garden Window
Sprawling in every direction, the debut album from Atlanta post-rockers O’Brother doesn’t fit nicely into any standard music box. Last seen on tour with Thrice and La Dispute, and hailing from the same great state (physically and metaphysically) as Kylesa, Mastodon, and Manchester Orchestra (whose frontman Andy Hull co-produces), O’Brother’s experimental take on Southern metal borders on the sludge of Melvins, the stoner-rock of Queens of the Stone Age, and the proggy ambience of Isis – sometimes all within the same song (“Lay Down”). The feedback of opener “Malum” sets the tone, but several intricate touches, like the piano intro of “Poison!” (which borrows from Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song”) make the set more thought-provoking than all-out-thrashing. Catch O’Brother co-headlining The Pyramid Scheme with Junius Feb. 23.