Bolstered by a punishing mix of colossal stoner doom, 'Pangaea' by French guitar / drum duo Birds Of Nazca is a sonic soundbite of tectonic plates crunching into one another. Punishing drums and moist, Doom riffs, sodden with fuzz forms the basis of what is possibly the band's heaviest album to date.
A lack of vocals is something that would normally put me off listening to an album but there are so many variations of sound and tempo within Pangaea that it took me a while to notice and by then I was completely sold on it. I love the contrast between the density of doom, the grooviness of stoner rock and the interludes of cosmic, almost Krautish psych.
Pangaea is an interstellar journey between genres, abundant with incident and wonder, I was totally captivated by it.
