A huge part of why many of us fall in love with music in the first place, the simple act of being able to lose yourself in any given piece of material is to put yourself in a state of euphoria that simply cannot be likened to any other kind of high on the planet. To have the notes and rhythms carry you off into another dimension is an experience that we’ve all had in some form or another, but it single-handedly has to be from the many different corners of the psychedelic realms that we see it happen far more often than not with those boundaries constantly being tested by names new and old alike. After a four-year silence, it’s with their latest album that Jirm shows us just how true that sentence is.

If there was any doubt as to how deep into the world of psychedelia Jirm would take listeners with this album, I think it’s even a mild glimpse at the cover art that should give anyone a solid idea as to what’s in store but it’s even then that the six tracks of “The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam” are not that simple or easy to pin down at any given moment. Crossing over the well-acquainted friends of psychedelia and heaviness in the form of malleble doom metal, it’s every one of the 52 minutes that are on full display here which we’re able to witness Jirm in no less than peak form with the four-year wait feeling very much worth it for there’s no way such excellence like this can simply be thrown together in just a few years. Overflowing with riffs that can be likened to all sorts of different acts across both respective styles that have a part to play in this release, there isn’t one minute of “The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam” that feels anywhere near the same as any other throughout the very whole of the album whether we’re taking into consideration the tantalizing riffs, the thick swirling atmospheres of pure color, or the utterly transcendent saxophone that has a key role in the wonder and wanderlust of the record to quickly make it an exploratory effort that is never once content to sit in one place for long whatsoever. It all comes together in such magnificent form that it all but warrants every listener to go out of their way and pick up their jaws off the floor for its every given moment of this release that Jirm does not lack in any department whether it’s the quality, power, or wonder to really make these six tracks something else that demands to be experienced in order to be believed.

An absolute menagerie of all that embodies falling into and truly losing yourself in an album, this has to be an album that demands respect and reverence virtually without question. If there was any potential doubt for what Jirm has been capable of since their silence began, it should be every given element of “The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam” that shuts down any argument for such treachery.

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