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Bardo Pond

Set and Setting

Released 1999 on matador
Reviewed by marvel63, Jul 2002ce

Wow, Bardo Pond. Sabbath, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and smoking a bag of something interesting. These 4 guys and a beautiful female singer have been bringing interesting sounds from Philadelphia for over the past ten years. They implode deeper into the nether eye of your mind with every release. Isobel (vocals) also lays into a flute and violin, a la tony conrad. Her tumbling singing and playing are part of a relentless sound wall of feeeed back, that times itself on moon/mood shifts. The song “Crawl Away” is absolutely magnificent, the guitars sound like the spectrum of oil in a water puddle,so help me god!