The debut album from Lucid Grave, Cosmic Mountain, arrived about two weeks ago through Electric Valley Records. The 45-minute full-length is led off by the massive, rolling lumber of the titular “Cosmic Mountain,” which is both opener and longest track (immediate points) at 11:21. This is important to note because “Old Spirit,” the cut for which the Kobenhavn five-piece have a new video out, is track two.

And it’s the contrast between those two first songs — that sense of going out really, really far, then snapping back to reality — is pretty important when it comes to the album as a whole, and not just because the two songs together comprise more than a third of the LP’s runtime. “Old Spirit” takes the grand, near-operatic declarations of vocalist Malene Pederson in the opener and completely recontextualizes them, surrounding with still-large tonality, but a feeling of motion that is sweeping and as much garage-metal as stoner-punk. One way or the other, you would call it uncompromising, and it is by no means the last turn that Cosmic Mountain has in store.

After you check out the video, you can stream the whole record near the bottom of this post courtesy of the Electric Valley Bandcamp page, and I’d encourage that if you’re at all intrigued by what unfolds in “Old Spirit.” It’s really just scratching the surface of what the entire release offers, but it’s doing so in an intriguing way that leads you down the path to the rest of Cosmic Mountain. See if you can follow the trail markers, maybe.

Enjoy:

Lucid Grave, “Old Spirit” official video

Copenhagen dark heavy psych/doom quintet Lucid Grave’s video for the song “Old Spirit,” taken from the recently released Cosmic Mountain LP. The video is made by DÓRI HALLDÓRSSON & AMANDA JENSEN.

“Old Spirit” is a heavy psych rock song with influence from the early ’80s punk. The song is about a fast spacy universe in-between two worlds. The song is inspired by the lead singer’s days in the high desert in California. The desert heat is hard on everything and everyone. And the wind still tells stories of the Native Americans, the legends of desert rock, and the military base in the unforgiving sun.

Cosmic Mountain is a journey through your favorite drugs of life, the highs and the lows, being chased through the desert and fighting a haze of demons.

The album Cosmic Mountain is available digitally and on four variants of vinyl (Test Press, Solid Yellow, Transparent Red Splatter Black Vinyl, Ultra LTD “Cosmic Edition”) via Electric Valley Records.

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