Paik, Monster of the Absolute - 34m 2s

Tracks & Durations

1. Intro	1:15
2. Phantoms	4:48
3. Snake Face	6:07
4. October	6:38
5. Monster of the Absolute	9:30
6. Contessa	4:30
7. Outro	1:08

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Review

"Paik make the kind of slow, drop-D guitar sludge that alienated suburban kids have been getting stoned to since Black Sabbath entered the fray...a few hours wallowing alone with records like this one can be cathartic in its own way, like pushing the `pause' button on your life, and it's sure a lot better for you than heroin." - PITCHFORMEDIA

"Instrumental power trio Paik certainly don't hold anything back...a massively low spate of dense drone-scapes saturated with feedback, low-pitched beats and squalid guitars. If Hawkwind's imprenetrable space-chug mixed with Big Black's grating corruption resembles your idea of a good time, dig in." - SKYCRAPER

"...Almost painfully methodical, yet retains an air of mystery and triumph usually reserved for soulless arena-rock bombast...a masterpiece of noise-based songwriting, garrulous drumming and pinprick bass notes, often redolent of Mogwai's crowning achievement, Young Team." - SPLENDID

Much of downtown Detroit exists in an advanced state of decay, its blue-collar past and collection of pre-Depression skyscrapers often referred to as an American Acropolis. For Paik, the very epicenter of this deterioration is precisely where they call home. From the erosion of concrete and steel comes a certain inspiration, a parable that has fueled Paik's ongoing quest for beauty amongst ugliness and chaos. Evolving from their embryonic shoegaze-inspired melee into sprawling, heavy stoner/psych/drone hybrids as evidenced on 2003's epic Satin Black, Paik have achieved an uncanny ability to completely shred the atmosphere while coaxing out blissfully sonorous melodies from their thunderous caterwaul. Pulling back the reins just a bit, Paik funnel their supersonic cyclones into a tightly focused box of thunder with Monster of the Absolute, their greatest balancing act of melody and dissonance to date. Utilizing the tried-and-true power trio format, Paik are certainly not at a loss for conjuring up blistering volume and powerful rhythms. It is their particular incantations, evoking warm melodic portraits amongst a firestorm, which truly set them apart. Few bands are as adept at evoking the inherent symmetry in otherwise clashing emotions as Paik, and it is this wedding of simultaneous sonic disparity (i.e. without the alternating loud/quiet crutch utilized by so many post-Slint/Mogwai instrumental acts) that is so breathtaking. Previous outings stretched out their explorations into lengthy, repetitious exercises but with Monster of the Absolute, Paik have honed things down to a much more concise, refined format. The result is some of the finest and most accessible cinematic pummel of their career.

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