Brant Bjork - Gods and Goddesses

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: On the opening track of his ninth solo album, Gods and Goddesses, Brant Bjork sings, ?What you?re hearing is exactly what was heard, yeah.? The former Kyuss and Fu Manchu drummer and songwriting force behind the short-lived Ché project isn?t wrong either; like each of his records since 1999?s debut, Jalamanta, Gods and Goddesses has a righteously natural feel.

As ever, the songs sound like solo material, as in, they feel written by one person ? which I never saw as a problem ? but Brant (and here I?ll veer from my usual last-name-only method to save anyone being confused as to of whom We're speaking) has adopted a methodology for coping with that. He?s put a new band together.

For those who?ve followed Brant Bjork?s career as an independent solo artist (and if you haven?t, you?ve missed some very exciting records; Jalamanta, Keep Your Cool, Local Angel, Tres Dias and its companion piece Somera Sol among them), the immediate difference you?re going to notice with Gods and Goddesses is the upswing in production value.

Continue reading: The Obelisk – Brant Bjork In Communication With The Immortals
(Very special thanks to JJ Koczan for the kind permission)