Yuri Gagarin - The Outskirts of Reality

Driving, trippy, instrumental stoner rock that revs up in in some pretty familiar desert territory but quickly blasts off to the stratosphere and then on to all manner of weirder and more wonderful places.  Melodic and hypnotic, occasionally heavy, always interesting,  the album builds and builds in a very satisfying way.

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Dragunov - Arkhipov

A concept album about a submarine engagement during the Cuban missile crisis, as it's instrumental there's no story directly told but the music can be as crushing and oppressive as I imagine a submarine feels with nods to the alarms and that familiar 'ping' of sonar you've heard in a dozen movies.   It's a dense post-metal record, huge swirling riffs that remind of Cult of Luna, Helmet, or Black Sabbath with lots of variety, driving drums that sounds fantastic, and enough texture added that I didn't miss having vocals at all which can sometimes happen this kind of thing.  

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