Rosetta West - God Of The Dead (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Gravity Sessions, the previous release from Chicago’s Rosetta West, was a short, sharp, and shockingly concise collection of songs, so it is only natural that this time out, the band gives itself more room to work with. More room to explore and expand their sonic potential, more room to breathe, more room to make great music unhindered by constraints of space and perhaps even existing expectation.

Their latest release, God of the Dead, is less an album and more a fetid and fervent fever dream—a sprawling, ragged tapestry of primal sounds stitched together from weird, in the archaic meaning of the word, blues-rock, jagged punky-funky grooves, acoustic honesty, ornate pianos, and feedback-drenched musical landscapeswhere it feels like the guitars are haunted and it feels as if the music is trying to exhume something malevolent from within.

It’s a wildly diverse album, unapologetically unpolished, and all the better for it. As ever, Rosetta West delves deep into themes of mysticism and spirituality, but this time the veil between the esoteric and the everyday feels thinner—blurred, distorted, maybe even broken. This is indeed an album with a foot in both the here-and-now and the unfathomable beyond.

TRACKLIST

1. Rosetta West - Boneyard Blues
2. Rosetta West - Underground
3. Rosetta West - I Don't Care
4. Rosetta West - Chain Smoke
5. Rosetta West - Town Of Tomorrow
6. Rosetta West - Susanna Jones, Pt. 1
7. Rosetta West - Tao Teh King
8. Rosetta West - My Life
9. Rosetta West - Baby Come Home
10. Rosetta West - Summertime
11. Rosetta West - Dead Of Night
12. Rosetta West - Thorns Of Beauty
13. Rosetta West - Inferno
14. Rosetta West - Susanna Jones, Pt. 2
15. Rosetta West - Midnight



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