"August" and "Love Unfiltered" opt for acoustic textures, though not at the expense of the already well-stated preference for sludgy garage rock grooves. There's a good chance you'll have the main riff from this tune permanently ingrained after hearing it a few times- whether or not that translates to ever wanting to play it again depends on your affinity for pre-school blues riffery (and general level of patience). Slightly less engaging is "Skyline", if only because it tends to follow the more obvious path to bliss via mind-numbing repetition. The end result is like a younger cousin to Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" crossed with Funkadelic's "Music for Your Mother", but with no vocals, you're free to follow your own narrative.
Likewise, "Dark Temper" wrings plenty of mileage out of its snaky, pseudo-blues thang using little more than that same smoggy veneer and surprisingly subtle guitar figures. The band play everything pretty slow, and prefer extremely minor variations on the same basic riff played continuously, rather than muck up the mix with extraneous "psychedelic" effects (Cotton Casino, I'm looking in your direction). The sound approaches lo-fi even as the layers of soft noise build, giving the tune an ominous, hazy depth. A gauze of distant, howling breeze covers the minimal guitar-bass-drums vamp like a layer of heavy white smoke.
"Komaron Runner" wastes little time establishing the mildly disorientating quease-trance that Pharaoh Overlord specialize in. For the straight-edgers in the audience, just consider it the next best thing to warm milk before bed. If not, may I suggest that these guys come off like an intensely comfortable version of Acid Mothers Temple, minus all that guitar squealing nonsense. Fuck, more herb nonsense- anyway, you probably get the idea. Rather than concoct trance via mere repetition, Pharaoh Overlord realize that the quickest way to a sedated heart is to ease in gradually, massaging all the rough edges away and keeping the traveler effortlessly afloat. The flavor on their second release is decidedly passive where Circle are prone to brute force.
Enter Finland's Pharaoh Overlord, a project led by guitarist Jussi Lehtisalo of Circle, themselves good for a lengthy excursion or three into outer space.
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