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This is still my favorite DVOA album and it probably contains some of his best "songs" as well. There are two discs and the first one contains tracks that had other artists involved while the second one is just the man himself, Mark Spybey. Both have 8 tracks each and are generally named after Roman land marks that exsist today, at least disc two is.
Disc one has the "songs" I was talking about and some of these tracks contain lyrics as well. The opening track, Geong G'ume, has some very unique drums played over other odd sounding instruments and while it has structure it still manages to give off an experimental sound as well. Overall it's not my favorite on here but it's a good opener. The Durrow Book starts off with Spybey's ambient touch and picks up after about 100 seconds into it and then a guitar and drums come in mixed with some great ambient organ sounds. Sulphur has one of the oddest distorted vocals in a track I've heard. It's very low and it plays well with the tracks slow moving organ and beat. It doesn't vary much but if you like Leonard Cohen you'd probably like this track. The track gets very beautiful once the course and violins come in. Now we come to my favorite track on this double album, Red Kerre. This track is so dreamy and it has a vocal lyric running through it that say Dark blue sea paying homage to Spybey's view from his home I believe. The cello playing throughout is brilliant and there's some light drums that soon come in. I've played this track a million times and have yet to get sick of it. It moves my brain! Foss Maerum gets us back to Spybey's oddness and it's hard to describe this track. The lyrics seem as if they were written by Genesis P. Orridge too. It ends with a cute little verse from Sugerpill singing a part of Greensleves. Caw Gap is a drone track with vocals that are echoed throughout the track and get louder towards the end. There is a cello being played which is why this track appeared on the first disc and not the second. It's a cool track to shut your eyes too, much like the one's on disc two. Swan Flax is an 11 minute track that doesn't change much at all but features a drum sample that Spybey liked so much he made a track out of it, which is the next one, Castered Carts. Now this track is strong enough to get radio play I believe and features Sugerpill again on vocals. It's an ambient beat number that is one of my favorite female vocal tracks ever! I believe the song was written about homeless people too.
Disc two is all drone. The first two tracks On Hare Hill and Of Hare Hill are one and the same except the first one is a massive 25 minutes. It's a very slow moving drone track that has other low drones fading in and out and the tones get higher as the track moves on. I won't describe each track on here because I'd be repeating myself but the best ones on here, besides track 1, are Voss Pilae and the last two. Overall this album kicks some drone ass and is very unique indeed. A must for drone and DVOA fans.
