Three records into a surreal career that has them quietly becoming the greatest, most fearless, most exploratory avant garde hard-ish act in the drowning pool.
Similar to Tristeza or an instrumental American Football, the Ohio quintet handle subtlety like a snakecharmer, using unseen forces to slowly guide inertia.
Eleven tracks of patented Get Hip swagger-rock, big rock recorded on a little budget, just like New York Dolls and all the bands who’ve come in their wake.
On top of Spiritualized’s sweeping grandiosity and The Flaming Lips’ chipper psychedelia, The Helio Sequence dumped a shitload of homemade electronics.
Cross Slipknot with Primus, Clutch, Queens Of The Stone Age, Masters of Reality, Mudvayne, Devildriver, and Thought Industry, and you’re close to The Heavils.