Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method
| Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method | ||||
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| Studio album from Earth | ||||
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Publication |
October 23, 2005 |
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March - May 2005 |
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| Label (s) | Southern Lord | |||
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Title (number) |
9 ( vinyl version: 10) |
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running time |
46:29 ( Vinyl version: 61:37) |
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Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method is the fourth studio album by the American drone band Earth . The title is an allusion to the "infernal method" of printing in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell .
Emergence
The album was Earth's first release after the band had been on hiatus for nine years due to Dylan Carlson's drug problems.
Style and content
The guitars on Hex are, unlike on the previous albums, not distorted. The album is relatively fast for the genre, the high solos Pedal Steel-and Lapsteel -Guitar give the music a country - and Americana inch touch that goes beyond the Doom genre.
reception
Despite the radical change in style, "Hex" was widely praised by fans and critics. The Allmusic Guide awarded the album three and a half out of five stars. Stewart Voegtlin sees the album as a "symbol". Austin Gaines describes it as a "surprisingly beautiful instrumental album," although he describes it as a "collection of riffs" in the same article.
Track list
- Mirage - 1:45
- Land of Some Other Order - 7:18
- The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves - 7:34
- Left in the Desert - 1:13
- Lens of Unrectified Night - 7:56
- An Inquest Concerning Teeth - 5:16
- Raiford (The Felon Wind) - 7:22
- The Dry Lake - 3:21
- Tethered to the Polestar - 4:42
- Untitled (bonus track of the vinyl edition) - 15:08
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review in the Allmusic Guide (accessed on March 12, 2010)
- ↑ hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method Review at dustedmagazine.com (Retrieved March 12, 2010)
- ↑ Review at pitchfork.com (accessed March 12, 2010)