LEE MCKINNEY

Infinite Mind

SUMERIAN

Born Of Osiris guitarist embarks on a djenty solo journey

With fifth album The Simulation barely warm on the record shelves and its accompaniment planned for later this year, Born of Osiris’s Lee McKinney epitomises the phrase

‘No rest for the wicked’. Intriguing and inventive, the all-instrumental Infinite Mind is an expansive, multitextured soundtrack. Soaring saxophone-led passages, interspersed with djent-laden riffs, course through opener A Clock Without A Craftsman before The Sun And The Wind dazzles with its progressive noodling. Eclectic sounds tumble out of leftfield throughout; A Neverending Explosion flexes its experimental muscles amidst ambient textures and fret-based gymnastics, while Truthsayer flirts with atmospheric bursts of electronica. A compelling solo offering. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Born Of Osiris, Textures, Intervals experience that journos love to dig out grandiose metaphors for. This time, the band beat us to it: “The instrumental roots of the band refract in a prismatic soundscape where each musical beam finds its own space,” they declare, but stoner-pseud verbosity is forgiven with the earfuls of radiant chemistry and eccentric musical architecture put together across six tracks where epic prog chops, psychdoom riffs, sci-fi ambience and windswept guitar heroism collide with cinematic scope. ■■■■■■■■■■

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