Burning Off Impurites

an increased interest in psychedelic, ambient and world musics is most likely to blame for grails' exploration of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. in addition, their eclectic range of collaborative endeavors, guitarist zak riles is also in m. ward's band, while drummer emil amos has moonlighted as jandek's drummer has introduced an element of improvisation and reinterpretation of ideas that is both brilliant and earnest. like black tar prophecies, burning off impurities was produced by grails, with production assistance by jeff saltzman and steven wray lobdell (of avant-garde legends, faust). influenced in equal parts by ash ra tempel, erkin koray, popol vuh, black sabbath, led zeppelin, and dozens others, this is very likely the closest grails will ever get to making a classic rock record.