THE MYSTICAL HOT CHOCOLATE ENDEAVORS

Dreamy US quartet hit the sweet spot between prog, shoegaze and psych.

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INCORRIGIBLE ODDBALLS ALWAYS find their way to prog in the end. For the first part of his musical career, multi instrumentalist Craig Schmuhl was guitarist and frontman with a death metal band called Hate Storm Annihilation. Today, he releases music as The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors. His latest, A Clock Without A Craftsman, is an extraordinary 98-minute journey through modern prog, post-rock, shoegaze and metal: solid proof that Schmuhl has found his true calling. “The prog thing didn’t really come around until I was at college,” he says. “I was just writing long songs, and a friend said, ‘Oh, you mean like prog rock?’ What the hell is prog rock, you know? [Laughs] I was just writing songs the way I do, but then he turned me onto Genesis and…

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