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COMETS
ON FIRE COMETS ON FIRE ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES |
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| Comets on Fire? More like Echoplex on All-the-fucking-time, if you ask me! Pretty much everything on this album that isn’t a drum or a bass is coated in a thick screaming spacey fluttering delay courtesy of the Echoplex, an arcane tape machine for which the band employs a whole extra member to operate onstage. | ||
| However,
beneath all the far-out space-age fuckery on this album lie the bare bones
of good old fashioned punk n’ roll songs. The track “One Foot”
sounds like a faster, sloppier Stooges, while “Graverobbers”
is reminiscent of a much sloppier early Zeppelin (sensing a pattern yet?).
Singer Ethan Miller has pretty much perfected his dirty spun-out rocker
shriek (Mark Arm of Mudhoney at his wildest comes to mind), and his vocals
fit perfectly over this heavy psychedelic sludge, especially when splashed
with a liberal amount of Echoplexy goodness. Though at times the band’s near-ceaseless insistence on expanding your mind can become grating, ultimately the infectious energy and catchiness of some of these tunes win out over their sound-effect gimmickry. |
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----Ilya Malinsky
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