First heard this band played as intermission music during a Twitch stream of a dude playing sitar covers of random doom metal songs. Yes, that's right.
First Utterance quickly became an album I obsessed over. At the time I was delving into a lot of forgotten 70's psychedelic music from the US and other countries so it was a real treat to find out about this. It's dark, creepy, beautiful, acoustic, heavy.
From their bandcamp: "Forged in the creative crucible of 1968’s ‘Summer of Love’, Comus took a decidedly darker path than flower-draggled hippiedom, with a prophetic counter-culture vision of ferocious, glowering firepower."
It's truly staggering to me. I was lucky enough to find the vinyl repress at my local record store.
One of my favorite things about the internet is that people have uploaded so much obscure music that would have been lost to the ages. Even if you were a huge music nerd I feel like there would only be so much digging you could do but now its stuff all over the world. Like Cambodian psych music!