Black Light Rainbow – Review

Black Light Rainbow

by Steve Tremain

Where have you been all my life? Where were you when I was driving down the coast at 3 AM, a mobile mass of coffee jitters and nicotine breath, chasing the burnt-out sunrise? Or the time I was sitting on the concrete front steps, crumpled cans of Miller High Life strewn around the low-life yard, waiting for sundown, feeling the wormholes in my heart from when Kathy left? Black Light Rainbow, standard bearers of the flag of guitar-stoked, acid-tinted, pulsing rrrrock! A rhythm section that plays as close as brothers, a guitarist bustin’ out chops like a butcher, and a voice that takes Seattle by the ears, kicks it a few times, and sends it off to bed without any supper. Their ballads become anthems, and the tribal groove of “Five O.D.” is almost too intense for words. Good thing it’s just almost or I’d have no review. You’d better believe that this is a keeper, Bub. Get the CD now, so you can say you were into them before they got signed.