Dilate

by Bardo Pond

Dilate cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 April 2001
  • Label: Matador
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:44
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Clint Takeda, Michael Gibbons, Isobel Sollenberger, Ed Farnsworth

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A towering achievement in the Philadelphia underground, 'Dilate' immerses the listener in a suffocating yet beautiful ocean of feedback and drone. The band layers heavily distorted, monolithic guitar riffs beneath the haunting flute lines and ethereal, buried vocals of Isobel Sollenberger. This fusion creates a deeply hypnotic and medicinal strain of neo-psychedelia that slowly unfolds over sprawling, monumental song structures.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, atmospheric, noisy, repetitive, droning

Tracklist

  1. Two Planes (7:26)
  2. Sunrise (5:26)
  3. Inside (11:43)
  4. Aphasia (6:02)
  5. Favorite Uncle (5:58)
  6. Swig (4:22)
  7. Despite the Roar (7:07)
  8. lb. (8:31)
  9. Hum (3:43)
  10. Ganges (11:23)

Credits

  • Clint Takeda - bass, illustration [drawings]
  • Mark Ohe - cover
  • Ed Farnsworth - drums
  • John Gibbons - guitar [guitars], synth, percussion
  • Roger Seibel - lacquer cut by [vinyl cut by]
  • Isobel Sollenberger - voice, flute, violin
  • Joe Culver - organ [farfisa], drums
  • Bardo Pond - Primary Artist

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