URDOG - Eyelid Of Moon

Sometimes they come back. Or maybe they never really left…

Fragments of a musical past, imaginary landscapes, technicolor flashes of an unforgettable era.

Krautrock debris, psychedelia, faint progressive fuzz, minimalism. The music of this Providence trio is pure free-form music, sprouting from the crossroads of guitar (David Lifrieri), organ (Jeff Knoch) and drums (Erin Rosenthal), shot through with a "spiritual" dynamism and flashes of diamond-like brilliance.

Compared to the band's debut Garden Of Bones, Urdog's music now sounds more polished and balanced.

"Eyelid Of Moon" is, in fact, built on a more compact substrate, a kind of cosmic feeling with elusive boundaries. A prayer as old as the world, capable of carving out a "Hosianna Mantra" within the pictorial vertigo of a Riley-esque rainbow ("Nepenthe"); and of continuing, with the woozy steps of "Robur, The Conqueror", a strange dance of the stars between Velvet-like primitivism and shimmering sci-fi.

"Ani Nie Ma", on the other hand, is a shining example of alienation in trance-motion, amid Farfisa drool, Can-tronic scansions, guitar skeletons teetering over wah-wah sludge and vocal duets straight out of some pagan ritual. In short, a fine leap into the lysergic corridors of Amon Düül II and their krautrock kin, to whom these pocket-sized jams wink with a knowing smile.

Not that it's mere stylistic mimicry, mind you. Rather, one should speak of a "crosswise" perspective, which reshuffles the deck each time with a touch more personality. As in "Paths Of The Meridians", for example, where a glimpse of folk medievalism lets slip the light and shadow of that tragic transcendence found in the great works of Nico.

Or again, as in the final thirteen minutes of the title-track, where a deep groove marks out the coordinates of that past, sealing both its myth and its ever-living relevance.

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30/04/2026