Todd Rigione
V612 Project (Underdogma)
by Brian Varney
V612 Project is the type of album that feels and sounds thrown together but makes you think that this isn’t always such a bad thing. Eclectic, experimental, and seemingly cobbled together from a bunch of different things Todd Rigione found laying on the studio floor, V612 Project is something I’d be inclined to describe as “psychedelic” were there not such a strict stylistic association to that word. There are no sitars or backwards guitars or anything of the sort, but the album flows smoothly like the buzz from a third glass of wine, even when the transitions are as jarring as the one between the faint Neil Young wisps of “Cous Dream” and the Physical Graffiti-like majesty of “Creepy.”
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