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Path Of Samsara: Path of Samsara
06/04/11 || Altmer
Time to get stoned. What Path of Simsalabim serve us is basically groovy old rock with a lot of stoner and blues influence and some shouted vocals by Mr I Need To Take A Big Shit. This is a straight candidate for the “eh, what the fuck just happened here? Why did I put this on?” bin. This is one of those albums where you get that it was made, why it was made, what the band tried to achieve with the album, and still there’s something about the goddamn record that puts you off about it.
You see, most people would have to be on serious amounts of shrooms to appreciate this. Not that there’s anything wrong with shrooms, or drugs, or weed, after all I come from the land where people smoke weed legally, but fuck it, you need a lot of it to like this. Particularly when that vocalist enters the mix again. The music itself is decent. In fact there’s nothing wrong with this record musically. But I think I’ve done about 50 or so label sent albums now and that was often the case. It’s no different here. It’s quality, it’s boring, and it doesn’t get my penis all hard.
I wish Path of Simsalabim good luck in all their future endeavors. I hope they do more weed, more shrooms, and more groove laden hard rock if that makes them happy. But as long as that constipated singer is doing the vocals for them, they can get out of my stereo. This is one of those records where I really feel like I’ve got something better to do than actually listen to it. It’s that dull and dull records should be legally forbidden. Fuck it, can’t we get something actually grooving for once?
Recommendation: Weed, and kill the singer. Fucken hell, I can say that about all label-sents. If it sounds psychedelic, all I need to add is weed. How easy my life as GD-reviewer is, haha… Fuck you all.
- Information
- Released: 2011
- Label: self-released
- Website: Path of Samsara MySpace
- Band
- Benjamin H: vocals, bass
- Niko B: guitars
- Sebastian H.: guitars
- Benjamin K: drums
- Tracklist
- 01. A Song For The Ocean
- 02. Pilgrim
- 03. Sun
- 04. Ambassador
- 05. Vortex
- 06. Oceans
- 07. A Song For The Sun
