Songs titles like “The Midnight NAMBLA,” “I Got Erection,” and “Denim Demon” may set off joke-band alarms, but it’s obvious the band is serious about its music.
Every one of these 13 tracks is a winner. There’s nothing bad to be said about this album. The only bad thing to be said is about you if you don’t own it.
Patchy at times, magnificent at others, a sonic novel about broken lives/shattered dreams/disillusionment/history. Any one of us could be the characters.
This full-length and its four-track companion (also entitled Phoenix) are wonderful pieces of psychedelic perfection: Loud, brutal, drug-crazed, and expansive.
Estonians who play 14th century music on authentic instruments reinterpret Black Sabbath songs with radical arrangements and Latin translations of the lyrics.
More radio-friendly post-punkers discovering shoegazer, trip-hop, and Third Eye Blind. Bop-able, to attract females, but predictable from start to finish.