Stone
ABRAXAN HYMNS
Savannah’s masters of the chromatic riff strip back and rock out
BARONESS ESCHEWING COLOUR-CODED nomenclature for their sixth album feels very much like a statement, or the laying down of a marker. And while this latest record might not see them diverge too wildly from beloved predecessors such as Gold & Grey and Purple, it does present both a subtle evolution and a desire to strip back as the band power towards new terrain.
This slimming down – probably no bad thing after the thrillingly ostentatious bloat of – doesn’t mean a shortage of ideas or ambition, however. Indeed, if, as someone somewhere once said, it’s about the journey rather than the destination, then Baroness are intent on taking us on one hell of a trip. Craggy mountaintops, deep gorges, plashy fens and endlessly
