Barn Owl
Ancestral Star

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

In his novel TheSheltering Sky, American expat author Paul Bowles -- as versed as anywriter in the infinitude of desert landscapes -- wrote of the Sah...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...