{"id":15731,"date":"2016-03-14T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=15731"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:50:33","slug":"album-review-mondo-drag-the-occultation-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=15731","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Mondo Drag &#8211; The Occultation of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mondo Drag &#8211; The Occultation of Light<br \/>\nRelease Date: February 26, 2016<br \/>\nLabel: Riding Easy Records<\/p>\n<p>The first time I ever saw Mondo Drag live was the first time I had ever heard them. I remember them making a good impression but maybe it was that I just wasn&#8217;t ready for them at the time. Something about them just didn&#8217;t connect with me. Well, like most great bands, sometimes it&#8217;s just not the time and place to make that connection but after just one listen to their latest album, The Occultation of Light, Mondo Drag did more than make a connection with me. With this album, Mondo Drag reached deep into my multicolored psychedelic soul and played on my heart strings with their sonic organ driven psychedelic face rock.<\/p>\n<p>Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Captain Beyond, Emerson Lake &amp; Palmer, Yes, The Doors. These are all the bands that come to mind the minute I popped in Mondo Drag&#8217;s latest album, The Occultation of Light and trust me when I say this, that is some serious, heady, top tier face rock to be compared to and deservedly so. The opening track, &#8220;Dying Light&#8221; kicks things off with a sonic ELP kind of instrumental jam and then eases into this somewhat doom tinged Black Sabbath kind of ditty but it&#8217;s the track, &#8220;The Eye&#8221; that I found to be the total show stopper of this album.\u00a0\u00a0 Sounding like a lost Doors masterpiece, &#8220;The Eye&#8221; left me wanting more, causing me to go in for a repeat listen of this song not once but twice.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/INQOAgwxn18\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mondo Drag has definitely made a believer out of me and with The Occultation of Light, they have opened up a sonic portal that takes the listener on a cosmic ride of epic proportions. It feeds the love of progressive 70&#8217;s instrumental lovers while possessing the natural, poetic beauty to color in the beautifully haunting, moving, and jarring landscapes that the music creates. The Occultation of Light is without a doubt mind music. Put this album on, close your eyes, and watch the colors, shapes, and landscapes unfold right there in your mind. Yes, I was sober when I listened to this album but by the time it was done I felt high as a kite. Trust me folks, you need this album in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mondo Drag &#8211; The Occultation of Light Release Date: February 26, 2016 Label: Riding Easy Records The first time I ever saw Mondo Drag live was the first time I had ever heard them. I remember them making a good impression but maybe it was that I just wasn&#8217;t ready for them at the time. Something about them just didn&#8217;t connect with me. Well, like most great bands, sometimes it&#8217;s just not the time and place to make that connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1403,1405],"class_list":["post-15731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-mondo-drag","tag-riding-easy-records"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fractal-Pictures-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19699,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions\/19699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}