These Are Powers

These Are Powers
"Taro Tarot"
2008 (Hoss)

1. All Night Services - 03:52
2. Chipping Ice - 03:31
3. Cockles - 04:18
4. Untitled (Garbage Bird) - 00:43
5. Peel Some Off - 03:42
6. Twin Remains - 04:32

DL: MP3-320k-LAME3.98

Review from Wire Magazine (June 2008):
"Featuring ex-Liars bassist Pat Noecker, the drum-heavy sound of These Are Powers evokes the echoing dub displacement of PiL accompanied by chanted vocals and howling, reverberating guitar. The group’s self-styled “Ghost Punk” music has its obvious antecedents, then, but its trancelike repetition and unsettling barrage of processed guitars and voices, bolstered by a robust low end, lend it a certain distinction. These Are Powers’s intense, ritualistic sound is a rechannelling of rock energies (rather than a post-punk rejection of them) and the 20 minutes of Taro Tarot are like a short, sharp shock. Here the group make their mark and sign off with the guitar’s distorted siren cries and the fading echo of tribal percussion."