It’s been years now — just about two, judging from the sun. OM have done their time in the desert, and ever-changing, are returned. Today, they say, God is Good. Are you surprised? Perhaps you haven’t understood what OM is saying to you. But perhaps you felt something.

It’s true that one way pursued by OM leads in many different directions. It is a mystic path. Songs come from innumerable soucres, filtering through the external and the internal. OM albums are rituals, emotional, a catharsis of soul and spirit. As the ghat liberates soul from body to the ultimate, so too do OM strive to disengage from the finite object of their objective moral self to rest in the empty and timeless witness. And in doing so, they seek to release you as well.

As ever, dynamic relationships and the slow building of mood are attenuations that shape the structure of God is Good, the band’s fourth album, With careful microscopic increase, the energy grows though the four songs, leaden towards moments that one could interpret … revelation? Oblivion? Awakening?

Since 2004, OM have burned their name into the annals, trolled the fertile crescent, faithfully made more out of what little was put into their hands, forged three full-length albums from white-hot evaluations of the infinite. The duo that is OM is composed f bass and drums and whatever else comes to their minds that will serve the song and do it justice. Al Cisneros has been pursuing the pure note as OM (and previously with Sleep) for many years now, but this is the first OM record to feature the battery of Emil Amos, who replaces Chris Haikus int he chair.

You can go to the shelf and stud it: there are comparative religions, philosophy, metaphysics, mythology and history. Turn around, and there is OM Their vibrations of the philosophical and the physical are meant to move you.