Burning Off Impurities
by Grails
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 April 2007
- Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.
- Country: United States
- Length: 50:17
- Community rating: 3.88/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Kate O'Brien-Clarke, Emil Amos, Cory Gray, Dylan Rice-Leary
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Portland instrumental collective heavily expanded their cinematic rock sound by integrating profound Middle Eastern and Eastern European modal scales. The result is a sprawling, desert-scorched post-rock experience heavily laden with acoustic intricacies and ominous, brooding atmosphere.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, desert, atmospheric, wild-west, reverb-heavy
Tracklist
- Soft Temple (6:40)
- More Extinction (2:15)
- Silk Rd (8:14)
- Drawn Curtains (4:56)
- Outer Banks (7:47)
- Dead Vine Blues (4:41)
- Origin-ing (7:51)
- Burning Off Impurities (7:49)
Credits
- Grails - primary artist
- William Slater - bass guitar [bass gtr], piano, organ, electric piano [rhodes], harpsichord, guitar [gtr]
- Dylan Rice-Leary - guest, harmonica
- Cory Gray - guest, trumpet, baritone horn
- Kate O'Brien-Clarke - guest, violin