Chicago experimental outfit Mako Sica are streaming their first full length album titled Dark Horizon at La-soc.com. The record is currently scheduled for a February release.

Dark Horizon was recorded and mixed by Todd Rittman (D. Rider, US Maple, Singer) and Jim Zespy (Magnolia Eclectric Co.) at Logan Hardware.

According to the press release, the album was recorded live without any overdubs – which is an impressive feat in this studio-as-an-instrument era. The album offers a sprawling cinematic-progressive rock approach in that features only three tracks on two sides.

The press release also gives a bit more insight into the album tracks:

Side A’s twenty minute cycle begins with “I’itoi”, a song named for a mythological Native American god who lives in a mountain cave and watches over the desert.

“5th One is the Dark” incorporates elements of an arid land and a quenching sea, growing tidal waves that crest into quiet, murky vocals until the stillness is suddenly disrupted by an unforgiving nature.

Side B is the lone “Dunes”, a twenty minute final opus and literal metaphor. Under wide open spaces and giant looming skies, a sand dune seems taller without the comparative perspective of buildings, structures, or trees.

I don’t know about you, but that has me pretty excited.

Mako Sica are percussionist Michael J. Kendrick, guitarist/trumpeter Przemyslaw Krys Drazek and guitarist-vocialist Brent J. Fuscaldo. Check out our review of Mako Sica’s last release Mayday At Strobe.