Album Notes

"It is ironic that a metal-based band would be named Flagpole’s “Band of the Year” considering Athens’ predominantly pop predilections, but Lazer/Wülf earned 2008’s top honor with a multi-faceted sound that defies simple, if any, categorization. Band comparisons are frankly out the window and even though other “mostly” instrumental-only (track six, “Who Were the Mound Builders?” features some subtle, low, haunting vocals) heavy bands exist, such comparisons when listening to The Void That Isn’t’s uncompromising, ever-shifting psych/ avant/ metal/ jazz/ prog/ thrash/ rock mash-up would be misguided and unfair.

Like a practiced lotus eater, one is found wanting, hungering for more of this audio nirvana. Such thoughts are entirely selfish because it might be asking too much of L/W to give us more. But, oh, the craving is strong.

The stamina involved in creating such wondrously controlled derangement (how much of this is improvisational?) must be taxing, but the more L/W grooves, thrashes, churns, chugs, stops, starts, lurches, drops and soars the more it reveals of its dynamic, multi-textured and boundless sound-verse. L/W is that good, and The Void That Isn’t is simply stunning in its audacity and boundless, imaginative scope. The Void That Isn’t holds such nuance that repeated listens are mandatory. Tangled, mercurial and mesmerizing are all words that come to mind when trying to artfully describe this heavy trip into the inner regions of L/W’s collective subconscious mind."

-John Mincemoyer, Athens' Flagpole Magazine