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Rather than pick up where they left off, Grails take the
sky-high riff-based heaviness of their earlier albums and
distill it into a nuanced, widescreen opus. The perennial
influences of mid-20th century Western film scores, obscure
library music, and psychedelic krautrock are indelibly
imprinted, but Chalice Hymnal exudes an eerie patience in
unfurling the many layers of its subtle details.
Produced by the band over the past five years, Chalice
Hymnal bears some of the European psych and
experimental hip-hop production techniques of founding
members Alex Hall and Emil Amos' other group, Lilacs &
Champagne. Amos' meditative metal band, Om, and
longtime singer-songwriter project, Holy Sons, also naturally
find their way into the Chalice cauldron. Rounding out their
leaner line-up, cofounder Zak Riles (also of experimental
kraut-psych trio, Watter) layers synths and programming into
an electronic-prog hybrid that pushes Grails further into the
deep end, displaying a profound resonance, both musically
and emotionally. No one else sounds like Grails, and on
Chalice Hymnal they sound more like themselves than ever
before.