We didn't know anything about The Warlocks -- except wasn't that name the original name for the Grateful Dead? -- until hearing the L.A.-based quintet's absolutely sublime tune "Dreamless Days" on WMBR a couple years back. Since then -- and since buying Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, from which "Dreamless Days" was taken -- our affinity for the band has grown steadily. The Mirror Explodes, The Warlocks' sixth record, is available in the UK today and will be released in the U.S. on Tee Pee Records tomorrow. The opening track "Red Camera" begins like a dangerously overdriven version of the title track to Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See, but then floats into dark electric curtains of white noise and feedback. The record is not uniformly weighty: the ballad "There Is a Formula To Your Despair" is distinctly more gentle, although perhaps only a little less narcotic. The Warlocks launch a two-week UK tour July 14, after hitting Paris July 10; U.S. dates have not been revealed. Download "Red Camera" below.
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Dear Anonymous! Thanks for your comment, I am glad you like The Warlocks! I didn't publish what you wrote because it doesn't seem like publishing what a band member may or may not have ingested in your house is being fair to that band member. Thanks for reading.
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A hint of the Archie Bronson Oufit in there too....http://www.myspace.com/archiebronsonoutfit
ReplyDeleteGood point. That would be a pretty great live bill. Wonder when the follow-up to Derdang, Derdang is coming?
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