Al Cisneros of stoner titans Sleep and Emil Amos have created a sonic masterpiece with Advaitic Songs. Om don’t really seem to fit into a genre, they shouldn’t. Genre classifications are useless here, ...

Coming up with a genuinely original sound creates a challenge: persist with your unique direction, and brace yourself for a choir of critical voices banging on about diminishing returns. Try to move ...

Good news for fans of the mighty Om. There are strange rumblings afoot and rumours of a new album, Advaitic Songs, to be released through Drag City on July 24th. That’s all the whispers in the trees ...

Ever since Sleep reunited in 2009, Chris Hakius and Al Cisneros has dedicated less time to his solemn doom project Om. That will change this summer, however, as the group have announced plans for a ...

Although Advaitic Songs is OM’s fifth album, they’re not massively prolific. Its predecessor, God is Good was issued in 2009. Like Dylan Carlson’s Earth, time has moved them far from their rock roots.

Following in the path of 2009's God Is Good, Om incorporate instruments like tabla, cello, and flute on their fifth collection, Advaitic Songs. Diversity, it turns out, can be a diluting agent. Save ...

It may sound like Om is overreaching, yet the end result is far from daunting, and Advaitic Songs is quite gorgeous with its swelling strings, Middle Eastern and East Indian tones and its atmospheric, ...

Now five studio albums deep, Om still operate from under the shadow of monolith-metal weed-prophets Sleep, from whose considerable ashes they emerged. Guitarist Matt Pike took their über-metal ethos ...

As one-third of Sleep, bass player Al Cisneros was responsible for taking stoner rock to its logical extremes. With Om, however, he has pursued something altogether loftier: a spiritual expedition ...

Like many a great outfit before them, there is something truly odd about listening to the bass and drums duo of Al Cisneros and Emil Amos during daylight hours. Once dusk falls, however, their ...