The Haxan Cloak
Opening up The Information Pylon is Leeds, West Yorkshire doomsayer The Haxan Cloak, “maker of the year’s finest debut album” (FACT Mag). Bobby Krilic has ears clinically tuned to the stained, low-frequency grumble and groan of contemporaries Earth, Sunn O)), Tim Hecker, Kevin Drumm, Thrones... Summer 11’ his self-titled LP arrived on Aurora Borealis in a hailstorm of praise... a new hero had emerged. He sits confidently in such esteemed company; architect of a discordant, jet-black, graceful-yet-frightening sonic, creator of widescreen laments to occult audio-zones.
Prepare to be blown away by The Haxan Cloak. Full-on hallucinatory immersion in waves of dark, distressed, tender noise. The only way to spend a Sunday afternoon...
