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DARK SHADOWS

Cold Sun

 

Psychedelic/Space Rock

3.90 | 31 ratings

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alainPP
4 stars 1. South Texas starts psychedelic, on a DOORS ersatz and their ambient, progressive and spatial variations, those of bad trips we agree. 2 basses to give a singular foundation to note 2. Twisted Flower extension of the 1st title, everything is in the cascade of crystalline notes, to be taken as ... continued 3. Here In The Year starts on an air referring to the future works of Mike OLDFIELD, yes the album is only a reissue and the origin dated back to the 70s, at the time when the prog drawers were not instituted; the sound becomes progressive in the end, ambient, spleen, with a staggering misty melody; psychedelic to reassure on the sound heard 4. For Ever for a piece highlighting even more (we can't do better in fact!) Bill's voice, accompanied by the choirs; break... suddenly, an organ, a military march drum, a guitar that twists the air, the sound swells, it rises, it saturates, a bit of Anglican grandiloquence for this Texan and the psychedelic side reaches its firmament. Too vocalized finale preventing to leave on the wadded limbo

5. See What You Cause riff in the ROLLING STONES, astonishing for the bass and the voice; rhythmic, jerky, denoting from the beginning of the album, well we are on the 2nd side, we made the effort to get up and change... in short, worn out more than that but remembering the release we are definitely on a pearl of yesteryear, a jewel of unacknowledged proto-Prog, of the psyche of the DOORS, of the PINK FLOYD still in short pants 6. Fall for the fall before its time... I had been thinking about the NEW YORK DOLLS, ALICE COOPER, a sound in its raw state for a while; the future of the ALIENS had already climbed onto the launch pad here and had deserted planet Earth; well, the voice launches me into the orbit of BLUE ÖYSTER CULT and Eric, yes the memory works at full speed to get out of the Earth's attraction. A fresh and old-fashioned air, the desire to test sounds that did not yet exist, the real pleasure of creating, deciphering and giving free rein to one's desires 7. Ra-Ma comes to close this LP taken from the bottom of the drawer, monolithic air like Riders on the Storm, atmosphere of the 60s gangsters on motorcycles, in a gang, dressed in black, the guitars lighting the road darkened by their misdeeds; hold a harmonica suddenly and the sound becomes marshmallow before its time, yes I was not yet born listening to this air which sticks to your skin, to your ears; the resemblance of a BOC, of ​​a DOORS is remarkable especially in reverse, this group was indeed avant-garde. The guitar looks at the bend of another break on the bluesy Louisiana atmosphere, that of sticky syrups, time stops. 4 for the sound of the time, for the originality.

alainPP | 4/5 |

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