There are a lot of retro-minded guitar bands who plunder the pre-punk 70s for nuggets of gold, but few quite as deft and inspired as the BROUGHT LOW are on Third Record.
Not as pop-minded as NIRVANA, as psychedelic as SCREAMING TREES or as weird as SOUNDGARDEN, ATH nonetheless bears echoes of all three.
On Prior To the Fire, the follow-up to its debut album Hello Master, Priestess worships the almighty riff.
It may not be Forever Changes, but it’s still great rock & roll.
Bluesy classic rock, no muss, no fuss and straight from the 70s.
Another day, another band that sets the controls for the heart of the sun.

Australian and Welsh guitar power collide and create energy.
Now that DEVIN TOWNSEND has laid his many projects to rest, he can worry less about which tune fits which sobriquet and just thrown everything he likes onto one album.
The quartet sounds little like either of its forebears, instead traversing the mysterious terrain between late 60s psychedelia and early 70s hard rock.
Virginia’s PONTIAK could slot comfortably on the shelf next to envelope-pushing stoner rock bands.