Zelienople - Stone Academy
[Digitalis]

Stone Academy is a myriad rhythmic slurring, of slow cavernous echoes disrobing creaking acoustics and desperate vocals. Zelienople immerse their listeners in great wide stretches of prehistoric sound, like being in the bat cave when the evil dead come out to play.

Their interchanging between acoustic cycles and canyon-deep growling static can take you by surprise, with the crashings of opener 'Plastic Dog' juxtaposing the soft echoing brevity of 'Fuck Everything', before they again change tack for the drone-filled ambience of 'Elephant'.

The production makes for a sound that is spacious, drawling, and expansive. The vocals stretch out over empty landscapes, the acoustics bounce off far away cliff faces, and the disruptive collision of static on frustrated instrumentation reaches into the swollen core of the earth.

Rich tapestries and drifting soundscapes populate Zelienople's second offering, they focus on the bare bones of what might best be described as prehistoric folk, building and demolishing stark percussive brickwork or ornate guitar pluckings, always in an empty space devoid of life and human form.