Shackleton again. His 2009 album »Three EPs« is a dubstep classic. Everyone should give it a listen. But since then, the Englishman has lost interest in the purist approach and his music has evolved in all sorts of experimental directions across half a dozen albums, between cosmic psychedelia, minimal music, contemporary classical music and ambient drone. And as contributors, Shackleton has always invited a wide range of musical collaborators.
That his choice of collaborator for »Jinxed By Being« was Ben Chasny aka Six Organs Of Admittance may appear unusual at first glance. But in essence both share the same goal: experimental psych-drone music, only one approaches it from a bass-heavy perspective and the other from a folkier one. When the bass rumbles up from the depths, Shackleton is in the driver’s seat, and when a guitar soars into cosmic spheres, Chasny takes the reins. But more often than not, the two schools merge into elegiac ambient suites with echoing folk abstractions, Eastern ornaments, tinkling bells and percussion over deep drones. And when Ben Chasny sings, it’s as if his voice comes from the next room and someone forgot to close the door.
