Our Brother the Native - Sacred Psalms

By: Sophia Al-Maria

Our Brother the Native
Sacred Psalms

(FatCat)

SOUNDS LIKE: Animal Collective heads East.

WHY/WHY NOT: Using steel drums, anonymous and distant eastern European-sounding female chanting and the occasional Quranic recitation, Our Brother the Native manage to create haunting, aleatoric biodomes, each inhabited by a breezy song. We hear a woman, in a séance or retelling a story of an untimely death. The slicing weep of violin, the twinkle of a satellite dish, the puff of an old organ and it’s all beautiful.