Where another recent Wooden Wand release, Gipsy Freedom flirted with call-and-response conversation's that recalled Jack Kerouac recordings, and other offbeat directions such as a folk-metal tinge and In Gowan Ring folk, The Flood has a more consistent sound like a doomsday cult hard at work chanting and trying to communicate with extraterrestrial life.
Heavy chanting and eastern-tinged jazz vocals – think Alice Coltrane, perhaps – float alongside skreeing, noisy guitars and warbly warbling for the first half hour of The Flood. Heavy mental, this.
Things brighten a bit on "(I Wanna Live On) Sunbeam Creek" as acoustic instruments gently thrum in meandering tandem, although dissonant bass refuses to allow things to stray to far into a world of green fields and blue skies.
"Dogpaddlin' Home In Line With My Lord" might makes some listeners think of Maitreya Kali. Maybe with a pinch of Creedence thrown in for good measure?
As with other Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice releases, this is appropriate listening for fans of Sunburned Hand, No-Neck Blues Band, Finnish freak folk, Yahowha, and other like-minded psychedelic voyagers.
