ELDER - Innate Passage 2LP

Die-cut sleeve.

Highly recommended.

Elder, a name synonymous with psychedelic stoner rock for those in the know. A name who has ramped up the prog rock elements in recent years to a somewhat middling effect that reached a head on their previous effort. A name who, in 2022, struck a perfect coalescence of everything that made their yesteryear venerably immortal with all those new '70s-tinted progressive rock elements they've become infatuated with. Truly, Innate Passage is an album that earns every right to sit in the upper echelon of this group's discography with winding, stream-of-consciousness, intricate, introspective and transcendental epics that walk a fine line between crushing riffage and entheogenic songwriting in a way only Elder (and their knack for pouring seamless rivers of music) could manage.