We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Electric Relics

by Across Tundras

supported by
SabbathJeff
SabbathJeff thumbnail
SabbathJeff (portending pithy review that's wholly irrelevant and superfluous to my real feelings about this music)

What I CAN say is this:

Received. Spun. Loved.

Thank you!
MindOverFour
MindOverFour thumbnail
MindOverFour Certainly my favorite AT record. I imagine if Hank Williams Sr. went up in the hollers of Appalachia to find the songs of hill-folk and found that they had Orange Amps and Gibson guitars, this is what it would sound like. Beautiful, thoughtful music here. Favorite track: Driftless Caravan.
wannabejedi
wannabejedi thumbnail
wannabejedi Thanks to Bucky for introducing me to these guys and T.G. Olson! what a wonderful swirl of heavy psych, dark folk and of course, those riffs! all around solid album and soon to be a regular spinner on the old TT. highly recommended. Favorite track: Driftless Caravan.
Frederick Jones
Frederick Jones thumbnail
Frederick Jones Like I said in my review of his Sage album T.G. Olson's work is golden and true American. I ordered this on the super cool looking green swirled vinyl and it sounds even better than it looks. A true masterpiece. This album will hold a treasured spot in my collection for a long time to come. Favorite track: Unfortunate Son.
Christøph Trvm
Christøph Trvm thumbnail
Christøph Trvm A dusty, steamy journey into the past, mixing Americana, Southern Rock and Doom. Massive riffs, catchy songs, nice bits and bites of improv. Favorite track: Unfortunate Son.
Hand of Doom
Hand of Doom thumbnail
Hand of Doom What do you get when you mix gunslingers, tumbleweeds, and dust with psych riffs and a few drops of doom for good measure? You get the heavy, thirsty riffs on "Electric Relics". Standout tracks on the album are 'Pining for the Gravel Roads', 'Driftless Caravan' and the dark, brooding album closer 'Unfortunate Son'. Across Tundras have carved their own unique niche, this is smooth and heavy listening, just not in the usual sledgehammer definition of heavy.
handofdoomradio.blogspot.com.au Favorite track: Unfortunate Son.
more...
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Lately I've been pining for the gravel roads of my childhood home. But the windows are all boarded up and yard is overgrown. The barn fell in on itself near twenty years ago. Now it's just the land of the blackbird, stray cat, and the crow. Sometimes I get stuck living in memories so old sands are running backwards, diamonds turning into coal. Lately I've been pining for the gravel roads of my childhood home. Lately I've been pining for the gravel roads. Lately I've been pining for the gravel roads of my childhood home.
2.
Remember the time when I went running away to the most remote of lands? To a place where no soul knows me and I’m never going to tip my hand. There's a lean dark rider gunning for my life in dreams I can never escape. One hundred nights of restless sleeping. Dust and sand in my eyes when I awake. I guess that’s the chance you take. No one ever gets out alive from the den of poison snakes. From the den of poison snakes. Looking over your shoulder when the ground starts to quake. The whole town starts to shake. Ripples shot across the State. Last thing I remember that day was whistling through my ear. Shots rang out from the back of me, sent me falling I don’t know where. I don’t know where...
3.
4.
When dame fortune don't shine on your head it's easy to go to the place of gloom and dread. What some would give living in the ground. So many gave all and slipped away long before their time. When the hour comes let the driftless caravan ride. Sit out on the wing and hang on to that life. The driftless caravan rides. Departing for unknown skies. When damned fortune don't shine on your head don't come unraveling at your ends. When the hour comes let the driftless caravan ride. Sit out on the wing and hang on to that life. The driftless caravan rides, departing for unknown skies.. Let the reason of light shine on your head. The driftless caravan marches to unpromised lands. When damned fortune comes to its end the driftless caravan marches to the promised land.
5.
6.
Castaway 06:13
When I hit the shore after floating ten nights, saw the last signs of hope, dark fate unsaved my life. Will fate save my life? Oh, what a dreadful storm, capsized me in the night, left me nothing but a plank, stomach full of salt and fright. My grit was full of fight. No one can know what’s coming, until it takes you for a ride, treading away last days, waiting for the blinding light. The beacons flashing ruined fire. Few arrows fly on a straight and narrow line, one hundred miss the mark, for every hole in the bull’s eye. Pull my heart from the funeral pyre. Nothing of us does fade. But suffer a sea change. Into something rich and strange. Was it all just a dream? Is anything really what it seems? Nobody knows. When I leave the shore, wave to me goodbye.
7.
Solar Ark 05:27
You can’t see what's coming when you're just looking behind. Losing yourself in a maze of your own design. Tarnished to the rusted state of your mind’s dark eye. When you let the gears stop spinning it's just a matter of time. Luminaries of the restless age stare into the sun. Solar Ark keeps riding until the day is done. The visions of Sunna, daystar empress high. Riding her Sol chariot, a westward battle cry. Prisoners of the righteous cage I hope your time will come. Prisoners of the righteous cage I know your time will come. Luminaries of the restless age stare into the sun. Solar Ark keeps riding until the day is done.
8.
Your circle broke when you left for the backroads. Up jumped the devil and your soul had to follow. Not the devil that you follow. Everyone giving good pieces of their mind. You just ran and left them all at the wayside. Getting the hell of out of Stateside. Never blinked when you walked into the unknown over sun scorched hills and woods overgrown. But this is nothing like no backcountry that you know. No this ain't nothing like no backcountry that you know. Someone’s got their hands pressed over both eyes. Never blinked when you toed all the crooked lines. For God and Country all the traitors are gonna die. For God and Country all the Heathens are gonna die. Now I see the dread in every coming day and I miss my home oh so far away. Real American grace. What I wouldn't give to feel again Dakota winds blowing fierce across my weather burned face.Those who leave no trace.

about

"Electric Relics" is our humble offering placed at the crossroads of past, present, and future tense. Age-old energies and 3 phase electric power intersect to reveal hidden truths of bygone times, modern mysticisms, and sound the alarm for uncertain days to come. We walk through this shadowy land in search of a spark to light the fire and illuminate the depths of consciousness.

credits

released January 1, 2024

Tanner Olson - Guitars, Vocals, Drones, Lyrics
Casey Perry - Drums, Percussion
Mikey Allred - Bass, Vocals, Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Mellotron, Trombone
Joey Allred - Slide Guitar on "Solar Ark", Vocals on "Unfortunate Son"

Recorded by Mikey Allred and Tanner Olson @ Ramble Hill Farm - February 2013

Mixed and mastered by Mikey Allred - darkartaudio.com

Scale model landscape construction and photography by Casey Perry.

Graphic design and layout by Tanner Olson.

ELECTRIC RELICS ~ AUDIO ARTIFACTS

ER-01

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Electric Relics Audio Artifacts

contact / help

Contact Electric Relics Audio Artifacts

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Electric Relics, you may also like: