Conifer | tl

Conifer was a five-piece instrumental sludge / post-metal from Portland, Maine, United States formed in 2002. Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've somehow managed to live off the grid for the past seven years. Not easily pigeon-holed by a set genre, mixing post-rock, krautrock, metal and psychedelia in a very loud way, they have created a relentlessly driving and hypnotic whirlwind. Minimal, ethereal passages are narcotically lengthened and crescendos of distortion are sustained well beyond the boundaries adhered to by many of their peers. Welcoming dense riffage washes over the listener referencing pan Asian themes,...