Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Comets On Fire
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(Sub Pop, 2006)
Psyched out in Santa Cruz.
Now sadly 'on ice' Comets On Fire's constituent parts have become so successful the original psych rock monster feels like something of a supergroup. Guitarist Ben Chasny is now free to concentrate on his luminous, lysergic folk outfit Six Organs Of Admittance, while drummer Utrillo Kusher has just released a second Colossal Yes album and co-founding guitarist Ethan Miller's rootsier Howlin' Rain have made two great albums in one chicken shack (or something like that...). Adding Chasny to Comets' original four-piece in 2003 ushered the group away from the acid-fried, Californian jam band party scene towards the Sub Pop label and bona fide killer rock group status in just one LP (2004's whopping Blue Cathedral). But this, its 2006 follow-up, is their masterpiece. There are enough freaked-out, pummelling riff rockers to get lost in (Dogwood Rust, Holy Teeth) but also impressive diversions into jazz and piano blues (Jaybird and Lucifer's Memory respectively). Always key to the group's sound, Noel Harmonson and his vintage Echoplex effects exercise enough restraint so as to render the vocals on Lucifer's Memory and Hatched Upon The Age perfectly audible, prompting one senior MOJO editor to ask: "Is it wrong to like them best when they sound most like The Black Crowes?" No, it is not. And if the spirit of Canned Heat's Blind Owl Wilson should visit during the snake-hipped, erotic groove of Sour Smoke, then go with that too, dude.
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 26/02/2009
Further Listening
Comets On Fire – Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop, 2004)
Howlin’ Rain – Magnificent Fiend (Birdman, 2008)
Black Mountain – Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar, 2005)
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