Artist: Mondo Drag
Album: Through The Hourglass
Genre: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 39:15
Total Tracks: 6
Total Size: 478 MB

Tracklist:

01. Mondo Drag – Burning Daylight Pt. 1 (04:06)
02. Mondo Drag – Burning Daylight Pt. 2 (04:39)
03. Mondo Drag – Passages (11:02)
04. Mondo Drag – Through The Hourglass (06:21)
05. Mondo Drag – Death In Spring (06:10)
06. Mondo Drag – Run (06:54)

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It’s been nearly eight years since the last Mondo Drag album came out. In that time, the Bay Area psych-prog band toured the US and Europe, performed at major festivals and – once again – reformed their rhythm section. But in the context of the band’s nearly two-decade existence, this period may have been the most fraught. Vocalist and keyboardist John Gamiño lost friends and family members. Meanwhile, humanity suffered the throes of a global pandemic.The album is a dazzling and often plaintive rumination on the hours, days, and years—not to mention experiences—that comprise a lifetime. Two-part opener “Burning Daylight” smolders with melancholy, offering a whirl of multi-coloured and hallucinatory imagery. “It’s about the California wildfires and a feeling of helplessness,” Gamiño explains. “There’s a juxtaposition between the dark lyricism and upbeat music which is meant to imply a sort of delusional state—and choosing our own delusion to overcome the crushing despair of reality.”

Eleven-minute centerpiece “Passages” is a sprawling prog-rock adventure, festooned with lofty guitar melodies, sweeping organ flourishes and a delicately finger-picked outro. But the heaviest song, thematically speaking, might be the mournful and hypnotic “Death in Spring,” which borrows its title from the like-named Catalan novel.