Friday, January 05, 2007

Capsule Music Review - Comets on Fire

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The heaviest record of the year is less cacophonous than the band's last, the excellent Blue Cathedral, and thus more easily categorized, in this case as late 60's, early 70's protopunk/blues rock in the mold of the Stooges, Blue Cheer and the Groundhogs. The playing is fine all around, and is well-matched to the time-warp feel. The derivativeness of it and the similarity of the tracks to each other puts a limit on how many nice things I can say about it. It is nevertheless worthwhile traditional hard rock.

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