Elder is one of those bands that, if you ask a dozen people do describe their sound, will bring you a dozen potentially different answers built around the same few buzz words: "Psychedelic." "Stoner." "Prog." "Rock." "Metal." Part of that has to do with how the band has tweaked and changed their sound over nine releases spanning fourteen years; perhaps more instrumental to those varied answers is the way they continue to incorporate where they've been with where they're going. Each Elder album weaves and swirls in ways that are at once unexpected and comfortably familiar. Omens, the band's fifth full-length album which drops this Friday, continues that trend with glorious aplomb.
