Friday, December 08, 2006
Best CDs of 2006: The Black Angels "Passover"
The whole thing sounds like a gag: Spacemen 3 covering Dick Dale, covering the Velvet Underground, covering Jefferson Airplane. And it's from Austin, TX, of all places.
The Black Angels seem to take themselves way too seriously, but then you realize there's no way they COULD take themselves seriously. I mean, this kind of pretense applied this thickly is pretty silly stuff, right? Listen to "Manipulation" and see what I mean.
This is pure guilty pleasure drone rock, the kind of thing around which little cults develop (and the kind of thing I can drive to, for a long long time). Pretty soon we'll be seeing mopey kids with the Black Angels logo (a Warhol-esque bichromatic portrait of the female singer) tattooed on the smalls of their back, made visible cuz their pants are down around their knees and they aren't wearing any underwear. At that point, we can stop listening: the sellout will be complete.
Until then, consider yourself in on the goof. And thank me later.
The Black Angels seem to take themselves way too seriously, but then you realize there's no way they COULD take themselves seriously. I mean, this kind of pretense applied this thickly is pretty silly stuff, right? Listen to "Manipulation" and see what I mean.
This is pure guilty pleasure drone rock, the kind of thing around which little cults develop (and the kind of thing I can drive to, for a long long time). Pretty soon we'll be seeing mopey kids with the Black Angels logo (a Warhol-esque bichromatic portrait of the female singer) tattooed on the smalls of their back, made visible cuz their pants are down around their knees and they aren't wearing any underwear. At that point, we can stop listening: the sellout will be complete.
Until then, consider yourself in on the goof. And thank me later.
posted by Bill Purdy, 1:59 PM
2 Buffaloes were bitter enough to post comments:
After 4 months away from his blog...
BILL PURDY, ladies and gentlemen!
BILL PURDY, ladies and gentlemen!
Soden, that's not a bad mash-up of influences. Thank you.
Everyone else should just download it and decide for themselves how close we were to nailing the sound...
Everyone else should just download it and decide for themselves how close we were to nailing the sound...