Best Song Ever (This Week): Daniel Higgs' "Leontocephaline Rhapsody":
Lungfish frontman Daniel Higgs has had a strange and rewarding solo career since his excellent drone-rock group went on hiatus in 2005. Right now, after careful consideration, I have to say my favorite album by Higgs is Metempsychotic Melodies (Holy Mountain Records). The highlight of that 2007 record is “Leontocephaline Rhapsody,” an eight-minute magnum opus marked by staunchly strummed acoustic guitar hypnosis and what could be a wildly modulating electric guitar (or is it a harmonium? shruti box? bagpipes?) that whirls, soars, and ululates in articulate sweet and sour tones. I could listen to this for eight hours.
Higgs plays Cairo Fri. Nov. 9 with Arrington de Dionyso and Calvin Johnson. Here's my Stranger Suggests blurb on him.
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