Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night (Reviews)

The 11th album by Six Organs of Admittance is like a drug: it will lower your blood pressure. That's a good thing.

With "Actaeon's Fall (Against the Hounds)", Six Organs of Admittance's Luminous Night begins on a deceptively cheerful note. Couched in the medieval idiom, the song would be excellent background music for your next Dungeons and Dragons game. The pleasing, grandmother-friendly mix of viola, flute, and acoustic guitar (which is complemented by six repeating electric guitar notes periodically throughout the song), is so subtle and beguiling that only the most careful listeners will recognize the suggestion of darkness that comes to bear on all that follows. Six Organs of Admittance is the project of Ben Chasny (also well-known for his participation…