| · Finding comfort in the same old thing.
While the space rock insurgence looks just about wrapped up (delay pedals now a dime a dozen at your local pawn shop), there are those still plugging away behind waves of reverb and minor-chord melodies.
More ambient than most in the space rock game, Beef Terminal turn to loops and samples for The Isolationist, an album tribute to mainman MD Matheson’s late mother. As you’d expect, things start slowly, the guitars float in gradually and things all buzz away in extended fades five minutes later. Still, The Isolationist’s subject matter gives it extra gravity. The title track’s beautiful choir of single-note guitars is nothing short of hypnotically gorgeous.
It’s almost a given that just about everyone’s done their own home-recorded guitar space odyssey, but despite space rock’s limiting similarities as a genre unto itself, Beef Terminal still manages to carry a character all their own.
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