Mazozma

***"Bathing In The Stone is the 6th album from Mazozma (aka Ma Turner) and the first for Sophomore Lounge since 2016’s Mazozma’s Fatufairfe. In those ensuing 9 years (if not prior), Turner’s considerable skill-set as a guitarist has been employed in a variety of guises and the amount of range covered by projects including but not limited to Huevos II, Warmer Milks, State Champion and Teal Grapefruit begs the question who else in the underground rock sphere can measure up? The small field is about to get even slimmer with the release of Bathing In The Stone, a shimmering, incandescent riposte to a generation’s worth of troubled (and often tentative) troubadours. Immaculately recorded, deftly played, Bathing is the most fully realized and thoroughly gorgeous work in Turner’s sprawling discography. If, like me, you’re concerned your friends are drowning in a sea of musical mediocrity, the album will well function as a life preserver (NOT LITERALLY, besides you can’t play it after it’s soaked). Is that not the greatest gift you can give? I mean, I once received one of those Sports Illustrated football phones so I think I’m pretty qualified to weigh in on the opposite of the greatest gift.

All of that said, many of us feel as though we’re living in a world that’s being pulled apart at the seams (or in the case of the football phone, the stitching). For about 40 minutes, Bathing In The Stone is nothing short of a tonic for these horrible times. If that doesn’t seem nearly long enough, just fucking flip it over and start again."—Gerard Cosloy