"The Crowned Heads begin at the earth’s core, and then try to dig their way to the surface. They never really get there, but it’s a lot of fun watching them try. I hope you can still find these records.they are worth every penny."-- Decibel Magazine---".So what exactly are The Crowned Heads Of Europe all about. Is it art doom drone satanic celestial experimental? Yeah, pretty much.As the record progresses, no matter how heavy and corrosive the sound, it also manages to be weirdly pretty, a little psychedelic too. The record offers up brief squalls of squiggly distorted high end, only to follow with a lurching slow motion bass dirge, trudging through a creepscape rife with ghostly voices and melodies, processed vocals drown beneath slabs of FX drenched crush, super minimal doomic drones a la Trollmann, blossom into shimmery stretches of soft swirl and dreamy ambience, finishing off with a longform blast of crumbling in-the-red dronedirgedoom, the sounds so blown out, the overtones seem to add a whole layer of accidental melody, and the tones beating against one another create strange stuttering rhythms, everything buried beneath layers of filthy distorted murk and buzz, before slipping into something soft and hauntingly pretty, fading out in a blur of minimal cinematic creep."-- Aquarius Records---"I've been hearing a ton of drone albums since starting this gig and have just about had it with the genre. It's become saturated and stale and there's practically nothing to grab me to tell one album from another. CHOE make an exception, as I was bounding around my apt, keeping my ears keen on what was going to happen next. Letting things like variety and tension wash over me instead of feeling them coming from too far down the line. Damn fine."-- Foxy Digitalis---"Much like the Native American spiritual
visions of my own ancestory and their view of animals, not a single
second on this album is wasted. Not one. Even for those of you who
normally can't get into drone, this may be the album to take you by the
hand and lead you, convincingly, into the sickle. This is music to
reap by."-- Heathen Harvest---"These aren't just drones that were jammed on for a while, then commodified onto wax. They're proper constructions, with layers and directions. They reward close listening."-- Invisible Oranges
