Posted at animalpsi.com on May 11:

The gang is back again with a long-player, ‘This is the Voice of Doom Calling’. Anvil Salute, here a sextet (weren't they always?), playing an ample smattering of ten tracks in various shapes and sizes, while holding tight to their core repertoire of hazy, lazy Americana instrumentals: the 14 minute “Island of Genius”, with a reprise as the disc’s finale, picks along in a jubilant polyphony of warm, clean strings, trap, and bass reminiscent Valley of the Giants, growing in mass yet not speed, going nowhere by design. While by no means an unpleasant experience, the collection’s conventions work best in the smaller bits like the subsequent “Ira’s Unfinished Room”, a muffled chug-a-chug and jangle over choppy drum work, familiar a vocal-less slo-core a la Bedhead, et al; “Rudimentary Alchemy” confirms the anxious joy of small differences, as the simple addition of pattering disco percussion livens the flashing bulbs of looped guitars and brassy curse of harmonica. The down-farm “Wat Arun” and caravan jangle of “Balkania” is the shaggiest the band goes on this one, with just a slight free-dissonance in the space between notes and gong strikes. The joyous 10 minutes of “My Former Life is No Longer Mine” synchronizes the widest assortment of timbres, from rich metal strings to seeded shakers to the whale-song of a some magical bowed jug, the loose dervish of the song rotates in broad, hypnotic sweeps. CDr comes labeled in a color card with heavy vinyl sleeve.