Six Organs of Admittance, “Shelter from the Ash,” title song from the 2007 album.
Ben Chasny can really play the guitar. His track on Honest Strings: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jack Rose, released this past Monday, is phenomenal. Shelter from the Ash, released by Drag City in 2007, showed a new focus in Chasny’s work, melding his Fahey-esque fingerstyle playing and his attraction to noise. Noise-for-noise’s sake usually just descends into formula. On Shelter from the Ash it took shape for Chasny. And Chasny has continued to produce excellent records in its wake. Here’s to that continuing for a long time.
(Drag City’s official “description” of the album: “Music for those post-apocalyptic dreams we’re all having. The ones where you’re stumbling through the desert with one leg bandaged from the last coyote attack. These songs are what you’re humming in that dream. Take shelter and find comfort.”)
