Doomsdayer's Holiday

by Grails

Doomsdayer's Holiday cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 October 2008
  • Label: Temporary Residence
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:32
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Emil Amos, Zak Riles

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pivoting away from the esoteric, acoustic wanderings of their earlier work, the Portland instrumental rock band delivers their heaviest, most cohesive record to date. The album heavily incorporates driving, doomy guitar riffs alongside Eastern-influenced instrumentation, creating an incredibly tense, cinematic interpretation of psychedelic post-rock. It was widely praised as the band's undisputed masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, progressive, atmospheric, desert, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Doomsdayer's Holiday (3:24)
  2. Reincarnation Blues (4:25)
  3. The Natural Man (4:41)
  4. Immediate Mate (5:43)
  5. Predestination Blues (6:20)
  6. x-Contaminations (4:56)
  7. Acid Rain (8:00)

Credits

  • Grails - primary artist
  • Zak Riles - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, baglama [saz], oud
  • William Slater - bass guitar [bass gtr], piano, synth, vocals [vocs], guzheng
  • Erik Nugent - guest [with], flute
  • Jordan Hudson - guest [with], vibraphone [vibes]
  • Kate O'Brien-Clarke - guest [with], violin
  • Alan Bishop - guest [with], vocals

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