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The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (2010) - The light at the far end of the tunnel?

The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (2010)

In the category of contemporary groups psychedelic chemically highly charged, the first 2 albums The Black Angels were surprised and delighted by their dark and desperate side of the compound and sealed. Far from the flowers and everyone is beautiful, everyone is nice Austin group, as ouioui 12th Floor Elevators, the group therefore opted for a much more urban psychedelia and claustrophobic, an opiate, obviously ...

The disc begins immediately and we are in familiar territory, you start to get comfortable in that familiar rumble either comfortable, known and reassuring and then, without warning, the group without breaking suprend prevent this hum drum too predictable from the first half of the first title. Excelente idea that the immediate effect of stirring up curiosity and thus the listener's attention! The hard place
and surprises are linked together: short side psyche-pop that they do not necessarily know about the second title, as if they had decided to offer a little light, a little walk in the sun, pale indeed, like a sun of November, as a Sunday Afternoon outdoors, or Telephone.

harmonic structures Hinduization slightly (sometimes thought to Paint it Black to .... Who already?) And organs are obviously obsessed with return, just driven by a battery, to be reduced to the minimum subsistence , nonetheless this immensely and indispensable outgoing often purely rhythmic straitjacket come to mind for melody as well. The opiate of red Directorate to See a Ghost , there would be almost a side in this Swinging London Dreams Phosphene moments.

Because yes, it is undoubtedly the revelation of this album, rather than continue to spend their time gobbling every color imaginable stamps that go to them in their cellar again, the Angels have decided to out a bit. Their music gains in life and oxygen, it loses, of course, in paranoid claustrophobia. Rather than ruminating cries of despair, distress calls to revolt or rather the awareness of inertia and stupidity of our societies, as if suddenly Alex Maas and his crew were awakened one morning by deciding to almost take the bright side of life. As proof, the format more "conventional" of the length of titles. More long descent into hell without end here, but thumbnails moody, always rebellious, disillusioned but may be more "optimistic" than in the past. Should we see in The sniper, who strangely reminds me of Led Zep, a return acid dating of their tour opening for Wolfmother ? go figure ....

History does not scare aficionados of the 2 previous albums, do not make me say what I did not say we fully recognize the dough on the new Black Angels album, the group's talent for composition and his universe but rather than sterile and relentlessly plowing the same furrow, they open a bit ... who's complaining? certainly not the Black Mountain who seem to take the same path.