Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005)

It’s impossible to untether ambient country from the formidable legacy of Earth, Adrienne Davies and Dylan Carlson’s 34-year-old project. While their core is a molten mix of drone metal, psych, and post-rock, Earth’s orbit revolves around the blood-stained plains and spur-speckled deserts of the American outback. Hex; Or Printing In The Infernal Method combines droning epics with Ennio Morricone twang, woozy like the horizon on a hot day. Each song title on Hex is a phrase from Cormac McCarthy’s anti-Western epic Blood Meridian, sketching scenes of The Kid trotting around the Big Dipper (“Tethered to the Polestar”) and outrunning beasts of prey (“The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves”).

Tracklist:
1.01 - Earth - Mirage (1:45)
1.02 - Earth - Land of Some Other Order (7:19)
1.03 - Earth - The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves (7:34)
1.04 - Earth - Left in the Desert (1:13)
1.05 - Earth - Lens of Unrectified Night (7:56)
1.06 - Earth - An Inquest Concerning Teeth (5:16)
1.07 - Earth - Raiford (The Felon Wind) (7:21)
1.08 - Earth - The Dry Lake (3:21)
1.09 - Earth - Tethered to the Polestar (4:42)