Our debut album, NEPTUNE WITH FIRE, is out now in the US, UK & Australia.
PRESS
OF SOUND MIND press...
MOJO Magazine:
"On their second LP, this analogue-loving Los Angeles quintet pour classic hard rock, stone and progressive signifiers...into down-tempo suites that demand to be heard across four sides of vinyl. Tonally rich and played with real grace, it builds to a satisfyingly windswept climax on 13-minute head-nodder The Ambrose Law." - Manish Agarwal (3 out of 5)
Kerrang!:
"Just over a year since their debut, Neptune With Fire, Ancestors have crafted a sequel of quite majestic proportions..." - Olly Thomas (3 out of 5)
Decibel:
"[W]hen Ancestors filter the mournful prog harmonies of yesteryear through the titanium heavy of the now, they alchemize something pretty special... Recording four 13-plus minute songs connected by short bits of synth or piano improv involves a healthy sense of entitlement... Ancestors earn their pretension. It’s good pretension, the kind that keeps the repetitive jams taut and dynamic, directed towards both navel and sky. On Of Sound Mind, Ancestors don’t just assume that we want our minds blown. They actually blow ’em." - Etan Rosenbloom (8 out of 10)
Classic Rock Magazine:
"This is psych rock at the edge of the world. Where the two lengthy tracks of last year's debut, Neptune With Fire, sounded as though they were undergoing a baptism, dipping into lustrous guitar licks and returning more energised on the the other side, Of Sound Mind is a far more solemn yet scintillatingly far-flung affair. Mother Animal starts off in Electric Wizard territory before sailing off into glacial, heavy-hearted jams, while even the fired up doom of closer The Ambrose Law ends on a funereal note, as all band's sophistication disperses slowly into an afterglow of haunting, heart-stopping majesty." - Jonathan Selzer (8 out of 10)
"On the eight track Of Sound Mind, the band expands their scope and continues their doom-laden trip down nostalgia lane, with plenty of prog rock inspirations... ncestors keeps the proceedings musically interesting, and manage to maintain a cohesive theme throughout, relying on the quintet’s musical chops and tight-but-flowing melodies that somehow tie all the tracks together into one sound song." - Bob Cock (4 out of 5)
Metal Hammer:
"As mesmerising as Ancestors' debut Neptune With Fire, undoubtedly was, it's clear that its follow-up, Of Sound Mind, is a vision of much greater scope... Ancestors' combination of smoldering psychedelic doom and pastoral prog places leagues of clear water between themselves and the burgeoning morass of psych/post-doom/neo-prog milieu. Their fluent synthesis of styles marks them out as more than merely some prog revival act." - Greg Moffitt (8 out of 10)
Artrocker Magazine:
"As a complete, episodic work, Of Sound Mind shows its creators to be the embodiment of the record's title. At no point does the scale of it hamper the enjoyment of its slab-like delivery, and the group's knowledge of their craft is exceptional." - Daniel Ross (3 out of 5)
"Only two albums in, it’s difficult to declare this as Ancestors’ magnum opus, but as far as mountaintop experiences go, this is close to summiting Everest." - Jay Hill (4 out of 5)
Revolver Magazine:
"...[E]ven better is when they really focus on the singing, with results that are often elegant. The layered vocals on "Mother Animal," in particular, remind us that there's more to progressive rock than never-ending solos." - Brent Burton (3 1/2 out of 5)
"[W]ith the eight song Of Sound Mind (of which four stretch past the ten minute mark), Ancestors continues to defy any attempt at pigeonholing. They effortlessly move from one genre to the next with such grace that it's a seamless transition." - John Pegoraro
"[T]he riffs are just as gigantic as Neptune, but we knew they would be! This time around they have tightened it all up, adding and including all different sounds, dimensions and themes to keep it fresh... You can really tell the production has been amped up a few notches here. I absolutely love the keys spread all over this album, the bluesy guitar solo's are very tasty as well. Every track was firing on all cylinders... Album of the year material for sure." - Marcus Olsen
"Of Sound Mind could become a landmark for Ancestors, but I have the feeling the band is just getting started developing their sound, and the upped prog elements that appear throughout here are only the beginning of a (hopefully) long evolutionary process. Where these explorations will lead is anyone’s guess, but in 2009 Ancestors prove one of the most necessary and creative bands to wrench themselves from the stoner morass."
"First there's the straightforward thickness of Kyuss disciples Corrosion of Conformity. The resin-sopped riffs of Pepper Keenan's oft-overlooked stoner rock troupe seem to offer the blueprint for much of the opening track on Ancestors' Neptune With Fire. Second, there's the suffocatingly slow inertia of Sleep. The doom progeny's stillness informs the rest of this L.A. five-piece's debut, and Arik Roper, the psych-artist who designed Sleep's Dopesmoker's album art, designed the visuals for Neptune. And then, when you get away from the backbone, there's Pink Floyd and maybe even Hawkwind here as well. But it's those two immediately perceptible reference points that make for an interesting 1990s-informed take on 70s hard psyche, early doom, and art rock...makes it easy to come to Neptune With Fire for the mammoth riffs, but stay for the stretches when Ancestors take 'far out' even further." - Robbie Mackey (7.7 out of 10)
MOJO Magazine:
"LA Quintet Ancestors are suitably lysergic, their debut consisting of two conceptual, organ-striated heavy rock odysseys" (3 out of 5)
Decibel:
"...a surprisingly compact freakout that rumbles and spirals its way through a colorful kaleidoscope of textures before building itself back up to a Pink Floyd-inspired denouement of considerable beauty." - Greg Moffitt (8 out of 10)
High Times:
"Ancestors' Neptune With Fire should satiate both the traditional stoner-metal fan and those seeking a more expansive approach to this often self-limiting subgenre." - Mark Miller (3 1/2 out of 4 weed leaves)
Metal Hammer:
"Neptune With Fire defies analysis by simply being everything one could possibly demand from a paean to the riff, the reefer and the misty-eyed squint into the cosmos... a lengthy, celebratory trip" - Dom Lawson (8 out of 10)
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Had a thought while driving home and I wanted to share it. Hope you don’t mind…
When we truly let go of past hurts, hang-ups and disappointments and choose to live in the moment, in the now, in the PRESENT, life truly can be a GIFT.
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