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REVIEWS
Boomkat
...Over a year since he pushed into deeply psyched terrain on his
'Voice Of The Seven Thunders' LP, Rick Tomlinson presents four mystical
'Blue Comet' reworks by NWW's Andrew Liles. An engineer and producer
of some exceptional calibre, Liles is a fine nomination for this
project and adds a genuinely lysergic twist to the original recordings.
With his Full Leather Jacket mix of 'The Burning Mountain' we're
dragged by the ears over tumultuous psyche rock scraping chisselled
with Liles' endless studio trickery, while 'Cylinders' The Test
Dream Mix sets the mind on an astral trajectory over swirling raga
scales, rippling tablas and uncontrollable stray electronics. Flipside
'Out Of The Smoke' emerges from a maelstrom of infernal guitar to
a ritualist folk rock sermon preached from a mountaintop, and his
Pine Barrens Mix turns 'Set Fire To The Forest' into a widescreen
vision of scorched earth modular electronics and windswept riffage.
Invigorating stuff, we're sure you'll agree.
Norman Records
Voice
of The Seven Thunders new EP sounds like all the best bits of progressive/classic
rock, wedged betwixt some hefty slices of alt rock bread….or
summat like that. It has enough quality moments to get any long
hair by on a wet night at The Brittania..but who’d want to
go there anyway!? It kicks off in proper slaying fashion with a
beast of a track called “The Burning Mountain” that
sounds like Hawkwind ..if they had just stuck to pot rather than
ingesting every drug known to man.Like I mentioned not so long ago,
this EP slays the proverbial rock beast. All the tracks have had
the remix treatment by Andrew Liles (of Nurse With Wound “fame”)
and he has added a layer of swoosh and a certain ambience to the
proceedings. I was a bit cautious at first, as I’m not really
a fan of Nurse With Wound..I find being in the same room as one
of their records is a bit like being trapped in a sauna with Harry
Redknapp…uncomfortable and violated…not to mention bored
stiff. But this record is like a trip back in time to an episode
of the Old Grey Whistle Test, its loud and it sounds ace. The playing
on this record is top notch, and the progressive nature of the songs
give the tracks a sprawling hypnotic quality that I find beguiling.
The tracks sometimes have acoustic “passages” that give
you time to fully appreciate the riffs and arrangements. The final
track “Set Fire To The Forest” is a prime example of
the template of this record. Its two parts heavy rock exploration
then it winds it way into a slower groove with multi layered vocals
and guitars. All in all this is a heady sprawling record that will
ease the craving of many rock twats every where. Norman Records
understands that these guys have been sighted in Walsall and are
going to undergo a medical…We’ll keep you posted...
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