While I'm awfully tired of stoner/sludge/doom acts-who seem to get by more due to gear and a "crushing" *sound* than strong musical ideas-Sleep is one of the OGs (well, as OG as you can get when trying to sound like *that* band in the 90's) and I think this new record is shit-hot, in many ways their most perfect album in the sense that it manage to combine the crushing sound of the stellar but "difficult"/artsy-fartsy Dopesmoker/Jerusalem epic with the more compact, Sabbath-groovy songs from "holy mountain" which was based on demos and sounded accordingly (=thin). Good shit if you ask me with some absolutely killer riffs (good riffs was this bands strongest suit alongside the fat rhythm-section, old drummer has been replaced by dude from Neurosis which made me worried but new dude delivers the goods, less groove than on "holy Mountain" though). "Giza butler" is my jam... Tiny minus points (?) for not containing any lyrics as brilliantly stupid as "Drop out of life with bong in hand/follow the smoke toward the riff-filled land"...

*and apologies to binlahab for ripping off his posting-style, I just couldn't help it...