Barn Owl’s Ancestral Star is certainly a pleasant surprise. On fist listen this slow and steady record may seem a bit tedious. While at times it is a ...
Elliott Sharp - 14.12.2010
It would be unfair to discount Barn Owl’s Ancestral Star on the grounds that it simply regurgitates and combines Earth’s pre-Hex; Or Printing in the I...
David C. Obenour - 09.11.2010
For all the bombast that Ancestral Star summons from its beginning, the remainder of Barn Owl’s third album finds itself still ominous, though more te...
Alex Deller - 06.11.2010
While the term ‘Americana’ might normally be reserved for grumbly country blues, the third Barn Owl full-length could easily fall beneath that same ba...
DOWNLOAD - 03.11.2010
In his novel TheSheltering Sky, American expat author Paul Bowles -- as versed as anywriter in the infinitude of desert landscapes -- wrote of the Sah...
cloudspeakers - 02.11.2010
Barn Owl - Ancestral StarAncestral Star is the new album from San Francisco drone outfit Barn Owl, and this solely instrumental record is a step outsi...
Scott Branson - 02.11.2010
Barn Owl is the guitar drone collaboration of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras. On their new release for Thrill Jockey, Ancestral Star, they continue to e...
Neil Ashman - 02.11.2010
Ancestral Star is Barn Owl’s third record, but it’s unlikely that many readers will be familiar with their previous two. Readers of our very own Joe M...
Mason Jones - 02.11.2010
This San Francisco-based duo has established itself in the past few years as a talented drone machine, with releases on taste-making labels like Root ...
LUKE O'NEIL - 02.11.2010
A quick heads-up to the folks at the Nature Channel or anyone working on one of those films about the formation of the Earth: this third LP from San F...