Pocahaunted – Passage

This album does not demand attention; it’s confident enough to let you do your own thing while it plays, it doesn’t need you. There is no tension. Pocahaunted is a mainstay of my relaxation music, so there has to be peace, and there is: the swirling textures, the far-away, spiraling wails, the insistent undertone giving the smoke a little weight. But to hold my attention it needs more. There are no moments of sudden rapture, like in Earth’s The Bees…, no grinding opiate addiction like Grails. There is beauty, but the kind you remember years later in pictures, not the kind that strikes you dumbfounded while you wait on the corner and look across the street, helpless.

Check it: ‘Palm’
Buy it: Amazon (LP) / Troubleman Unlimited (LP)
Check them: Myspace / Not Not Fun