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These eight songs may not be able to be covered by anybody else, but they are wonderfully constructed, beautifully textured, and exquisitely played.
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A fine album for autumn.
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Shelter from the Ash is another masterpiece.
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It’s bit of a risk for Chasny to polish his sound, but he’s succeeded in bottling the imaginative, audacious overflow of his past efforts into perhaps his most cohesive record yet.
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MojoAnother impressive cocktail of Eastern-inflected drones, mantra-like vocals and thick slabs of empyrean noise guitar. [Dec 2007, p.100]
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Shelter From The Ash is a more sedate affair, full of ghostly baroque folk stories that feel disappointingly ethereal.
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Given the exploratory transience of Six Organs' catalogue, Shelter from the Ash feels too much like work, too much like what had to happen.
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Shelter from the Ash meshes the best elements of older Six Organs of Admittance albums with a new sense of cohesion.
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The results are beautifully solemn.
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Q MagazineIt can be a little ponderous, but the unearthly dawn chorus of 'Jade Like Wine' or the ritual freakout of 'Goddess Atonement' leave you yearning ofr a solstice to celebrate. [Dec 2007, p.124]
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SpinDespite Shelter From The Ash's transcendent drones and trippy, Eastern-inspired guitar figures...[Chasny's] vocals too often kill the buzz. [Dec 2007, p.125]
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Shelter bleeds enough drone and bliss to make a pretty smear of reality.
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Although there are moments of striking beauty here, the guitar sounds become repetitive, and Chasny's vocal is not particularly convincing.
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Shelter From The Ash displays some pretty wigged-out guitar work, but balanced by ruminative, minor-key acoustic moments that recall the mood of America's "Horse With No Name."
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Under The RadarThe songs on Shelter From The Ash can still stand strongly when taken in a shallow retrospect as an introduction to the band, but, when looking at the span of Chasney's prolific output, it can't help but feel like treading water. [Fall 2007, p.76]
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Shelter doesn't settle into one sound--which is fine--but it's never able to harness its manic energy into anything coherent.