Dauphin Elegies

The first new studio recordings from Pelt in three years picks up where 2005's Untitled CD leaves off-- delivering massive slabs of heavy, all-acoustic drone action. 'Waning Crescent' is an ominous workout for three large gongs, rich with overtones and subsonic rumble. 'Fire Signs Along the Field' offers a slightly jarring quartet of spare string noise, with Nathan Bowles (Black Twigs, Spiral Joy Band) sitting in on double bass. 'Cast Out to Deep Waters' is an immense 30-minute epic in the vein of Empty Bell Ringing in the Sky and Untitled's 'I' that fits into the archetypical classics in the Pelt canon. The all-too-brief 'Crown of Comets' closes the CD with the chiming, overlapping ring of bells recorded in Virginia's Falls Ridge caves.