This is an intriguing psychadelic walkabout. Blends fuzzy guitars with middle-eastern plucks, spacious soundscapes and noise waves. Lilting vocals straight from a 60’s acid trip. Hand drums to keep the pace going. Sitars and sound clips rounding out the atmosphere.
The album progresses like a wave, from the birds of “blinded (shining sun)” to the bells and clangs of the extensive “crossing the abyss”. There’s the traditionally rhythmic songs like “the rain” which follows the indo-industrial “crow leads the way to the underworld”. Plucked middle-eastern guitars in “wandering” and scratchy, noise-filled “a call for rain”. It’s an album meant to be listened to while drifting down the river Styx.
Each song walks its own path. Songs like “flood” are a drifting, tinkling improvisation above a breathy hum. Meanwhile, the title track “the sun beneath the sea” returns to the 70’s era low-fi rocker aesthetic. It’s hard to tell which way things will go, but they all blend into a similar journey. Some parts song, some parts noise, some parts flowing like a leaf through the clouds.
It forgoes singular hooks or motifs, instead breathing and grinding towards a “a momentary peace”, which ends things with a hearty electric guitar solo like an epilogue. Enjoyable for anyone into progressive middle-eastern instrumentals between chaotic soundscapes.