Companies etc▼
Recorded At – Aleph Studios
Produced At – Aleph Studios
Mastered At – Sinister Kitchen Laboratories
Credits▼
Design – Stephen O'Malley
Mastered By – Mell Dettmer
Photography [Portrait By] – Javier Villegas
Producer, Recorded By – Randall Dunn
Notes▼
Limited to 1000 copies (according to stall staff).
Tour only 12" first made available on the European tour of Earth with Sir Richard Bishop, February/March 2008.
Produced and recorded at Aleph Studios, October 2007.
Barcode and Other Identifiers▼
Matrix / Runout (Side A): 74633M1/A PIRATES PRESS SUNN90.5 A
Matrix / Runout (Side B): 74633M2/A PIRATES PRESS SUNN90.5 B

Review by Ned Raggett

Subtitled "Special Low Frequency Version" on the front -- and if one opens up the CD, the reverse of the booklet shows a wide selection of pills -- arguably Earth and its stoned and droned appeal in a nutshell. If Carlson and his bassist du jour, in this case Dave Harwell, weren't quite Sub Pop's answer to the ranges of U.K. guitar extremism from the likes of Godflesh, Main, and Skullflower, Earth still came pretty darn close to it, creating a record even the Melvins would find weird. Consisting of three long instrumentals edited together as one long monster slam of feedback and howling, Earth 2 dedicates itself to the proposition that there's no such thing as too loud, trudging, or doom-laden. Opening track "Seven Angels" does show that for all the semi-chaos, things are still based around riffs, or at least one key riff endlessly repeated and drove directly into the ground through layers of hum and delay. Had Tony Iommi written it, nobody would have blinked an eye, but not even Sabbath gave itself over so thoroughly to the power of the amplifier -- and all this without drums. Without even a slight pause, "Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine" takes over, namely all 27 minutes of it. With a more paced, clock-chime-from-damnation melody leading the way deep into the track, stretching out and getting even more end-is-nigh as it goes, it's a bizarre but strong, weirdly fascinating performance -- ambient music completely and totally suffused with threat and fuzz.

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Fifth official studio album and first in nine years. Band leader Dylan Carlson is regarded as an innovator in ambient, experimental, drone, doom circles. Known mostly for the Black Sabbath-meets-Melvins played at 16 RPM sound, they branch out here, incorporating new influences and continuing to innovate. Bold, vital, and essential.

Primitive and Deadly is the eighth studio album by American musical group Earth. It was released on September 2, 2014, through Southern Lord Records. The album, which features Mark Lanegan and Rabia Shaheen Qazi of Rose Windows as guest vocalists, is the first Earth album since Pentastar: In the Style of Demons (1996) to feature vocals. Other contributors include Brett Netson of Built to Spill, Jodie Cox of Narrows, and Bill Herzog of Jesse Sykes.

The third track off the album, "From the Zodiacal Light", was released for streaming on June 18, 2014. In support of the record, the band embarked on a world tour in 2014.