Mystic
The Basement Paintings
March 2016
The Basement Paintings’ overall sound can be categorized into ambient and post-metal genres. Drums and bass pound the low end of the frequency range, while the slithering reverberations of the string section widen the spectrum to exhaustive levels of grandiosity. The band’s latest release is an attempt to abandon their prog and metal roots, and enter the vast, desolate wilderness of drone-induced comatose. Exploring the theme of the human experience and the pursuit of knowledge, Mystic reunites the listener with their most primordial state of being, as if somehow it had always existed in them. Recorded at: home studio, Saskatoon. Produced by: Barrett Ross and Chris Douglas.
