Genre: Psychedelic Folk

01 Ghost Eye Gaze: Ghost Eye See
02 Ghost Eye Gaze: Brightless Gaze, The True Vision
03 Ghost Eye Gaze: The Silverspun Web
04 Ghost Eye Gaze: Cloud Eye Sight
05 Ghost Eye Gaze: Beneath Wings, Above Wind
06 Seeker: Seeker Chant
07 Seeker: Dream Asleep, Pray Awake
08 Candle, Corpse, And Bell

Timothy Renner and Æ Hoskin are the duo of Crow Tongue who present in this debut full length, Ghost : Eye : Seeker a flanging psychedelic free-for-all of weird folk and acidic noise whose mordant emission is enthralling as it is unique.

Charnel distortion from guitar and bowed “instruments” exude a canopy of rustling and prickling noise, a dense miasma of swelter about the self while Eastern instrumentation dovetails amidst the flushed haze steeping the air in psychedelic mysticism. The first five tracks mesh in one form for twenty-five minutes, all represented under the “Ghost Eye Gaze” header. Renner’s voice is as heady as the swelling bosom of instrumental humidity, smouldering phrased mantras as smoke into the drug-shimmering shell Crow Tongue erect. Clawed banjo squeals and slithers in the hunched environs, piercing the veil with scalic soiree’s foreign to Western habitats where lose meter is plumbed by pedal point. The maelstrom of sound-induced opiates is interestingly bereft of Hoskin’s percussive influence, but that comes to the fore in the last three tracks, which compartmentalize the album further, with two conjoined tracks as “Seeker” and the last, a finale deserving of such a token.

The “Seeker” duo is a marked distance from the gauzy heat of “Ghost Eye Gaze” as Hoskin adds his tabla into the mix for the first time, ritualizing the chant with self-induced hypnoidal padding. Summoned bass constructs further libations before Renner’s voice is truly heard and not matted in the quickening acid of the previous five tracks – and it is perfectly eld for objuration. Flanged in light distortion from distant caustic guitars, with a mutating melodic bass line the piece conjures the tribal succinctly. The companion “Seeker” track is an articulating disassembly of the previous tracks’ salient features into their components, a thickened sludge.

Lastly, “Candle, Corpse and Bell” rhythmically entrances with the table of Hoskin again in an entreaty of a different source, with bass and percussion pulsing into each other, and then outward; a dark folk dub that one might expect from Deutsch Nepal, with gloaming disenchanted vocals. It is surprisingly empty of instrumentation but poignant in bloodless repetition.

“Ghost : Eye : Seeker” comes wrapped nearly unadorned, its digipak is black and gloss, and bereft of any imprint, with the cover and rear liner notes of the digipak affixed by way of laser printed sticker upon the gatefold card. Like an inverse Durer engraving the disc is black, etched through to the silver with an etching of a crow.