Clocking in at nearly forty minutes, "The Archer & The Owle" is a rather generous EP that features some of Thou's best and most dynamic work yet. Featuring songs from the same sessions that spawned the band's monumental "Summit" record, this is Thou at their most expansive. Piano, horns and choral-like vocals mix with the band's thunderous doom-sludge to great effect. The band sounds downright victorious on the anthematic "Voices In The Wilderness," while the dirge-like "Bonnet Carre" hypnotizes with sprawling guitar work. To round out the ep, the group includes a cover of Nirvana's "Something In The Way" that doesn't just do justice to the original, it actually kind of bests it, at least for anyone who felt like the chorus should have been screamed and not whispered. Also featured are a set of covers from the folk-rock band Pygmy Lush, which, of course, Thou totally destroys by turning them into hardcore doom epics. "Voices In The Wilderness"
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