Arbouretum: The Gathering - review

(Thrill Jockey)These Baltimore psych-rockers' fourth album is apparently based on Carl Jung's Red Book, in which the psychoanalyst turned his gaze inward to document that which "burst forth from the unconscious" – which, in Jung's case, turned out to be snakes, strange landscapes, wise old spirit guides, that sort of thing. And so from one set of faintly mystical archetypes to another: for it is vintage psych-blues riffs and mid-paced wig-outs that have burst forth from Arbouretum singer-gui...

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