Glacial

Glacial is Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), David Watson (Afternoon Saints), and Tony Buck (The Necks).
On Jones Beach is from an edition of approximately 750 copies and is pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within a handsome multi-color silkscreened jacket bearing new photographic artwork from Ursula Scherrer.
The vinyl edition of the album presents the studio session in two twenty-one minute installments. The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the complete 48 minute studio.
Three Lobed Recordings was first exposed to studio sounds from the long-running but profoundly under-recorded Glacial in 2008. That introduction came in the form of the first track on Lee Ranaldo’s contribution to the Oscillation III series, Maelstrom From Drift. The sounds generated by Ranaldo, David Watson and Tony Buck were enveloping and other-worldly – immediately I knew I needed to hear more. Once asked if more studio evidence of this project existed, Lee was quick to answer “oh, yes.” Now, in 2012 Three Lobed Recordings is exceptionally excited to present On Jones Beach, the trio’s debut full-length release. Much like that track from 2008, this album is a majestic and ambitious journey unlike anything else going on in either the underground or the mainstream.
Here are some thoughts on this album from James “Wooden Wand” Toth:
“On Jones Beach reflects three men at the top of their craft. Recorded in 2005 at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studios, the album proper is made up of a single titular piece that runs almost 48 minutes. What’s stunning is how the trio appears, in that time, to charter a tour of the last 40+ years of guitar-based psychedelic improv. You’ve got your supremely stoned ambient drone, your slack-stringed doom metal guitar minimalism, your groovy post-Branca skronk, your devotional New Thing-indebted bleats and tantrums. More impressive than the amount of ground covered during this running time is the fact that these players can make these elements blend so seamlessly and so completely artfully...."