Seventh Ruined Hex

Birchville Cat Motel: Campbell Kneale.
SEVENTH RUINED HEX, Birchville Cat Motel's seventh record (and third of 2007, amazingly) is the blown-mind superstar's finest hour. Imagine My Bloody Valentine's layered noisescapes, minus the samplers and grooves, with a touch of Hawkwind-style spaciness and doom metal's lingering menace, and you're on the right track. Foregoing all traditional notions of rhythm and structure, SEVENTH RUINED HEX is a bracing exercise in the exhilaration of pure sound. The album also features collaborations with Sunroof!'s Matthew Bower.

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