The UK's Skullflower has origins dating back 20 years entrenched in a post-punk drawl fed from an addiction for abstraction into areas of modern industrial and hi-tech noise core. It's a sound akin to the paint splattered on the page in an imperceptible mess and yet recognized as art. Orange Canyon Mind does its share of audio paint splattering while in between, typified in the eight minute opener, "Starry Wisdom" or the follow up title track, smoothes the rough patches to momentarily clear an obscure picture bringing to life a flood of emotions ranging from rage and irritation to mesmerizing mellowness. And yet there's something very historical about the hypnotic sounds produced that recall the very first days of instrumental music that it's almost an eerie throwback.
Orange Canyon Mind is an enlightening if at times harrowing listening experience that's assuredly an acquired taste among its eight track hour-long foray into blinding white lights and dark colors suitably coating the mind's canvas between that which we embrace and that we can never understand.