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Q MagazineIt's what Spiritualized might sound like before Jason Pierce sprinkles his gospel fairy dust on them. [Oct 2010, p.104]
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Everything from the production to the songwriting seems aimed to evoke the 60s, and the album would probably sound killer on a good turntable.
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Their fourth album has none of the witchy class that makes these others so compelling and comes off like a painfully hokey play-act.
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Phosphene Dream's real achievement is that it takes the band's earlier murderous attitude and makes it impossibly bland. It might be the first time you fall asleep during an album with copious references to toxic gas, hauntings, death, blood, and killing.
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Under The RadarWith Phosphene Dream, The Black Angels can seem like they're too often pulling in two directions at once -- unable to leave behind their bearings yet subtly alluding to a desire to move forward. [Fall 2010, p. 66]
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MojoThe Austin Doors ramp up the psych-pop tunes. [Oct. 2010, p. 97]
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UncutA spring creeps into the step of "Sunday Afternoon" and "Telephone," providing a welcome break in the weather from a band who conform a little too readily to Henry Ford's dictum of having any colour you like so ling as it's black. [Oct 2010, p.87]
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Phosphene Dream's real achievement is that it takes the band's earlier murderous attitude and makes it impossibly bland.
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Sep 21, 2010Dark and Brooding with underlying harmonic rifts. This album is with out a doubt, a new favorite of mine.