Comets On Fire
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[ SubPop ] 2006

Straight out of the mothafuckin' gate - Avatar sounds like you may have just waltzed your confused self upon some lost session with [dazed] legends Crosby, Glimour, Blount and Young. "Dogwood Rust" begins this latest being from [the] Comets on Fire - and you will feel the presence. Like a borrowed hat that carries the weight of twelve undersexed elephants, "heavy" only begins to describe the pressure put upon your body from the shoulders up.

But, damn - should we reinvestigate that which these Comets on Fire have presented before us?

"Lucifer's Memory" is just presentably pleasant to absorb. Coming from the same band that admits "it's pretty easy to go out and blast somebody's face off live" - "Lucifer" is the anti-spasm. Seven minutes cradled with thoughtful guitar, drums and keys - this track will open the band up to anyone looking to - or guilty of - unfairly categorizing these 5 men as some 'heady, post-acid, over-Echoplexxxed flash of some thing' [save that bullshit talk for the ultrasonic givings of "Holy Teeth" - and know that Ben Chasny doesn't give a damn what you think, anyway].

"Goodbye to the century, farewell to the amnesty, christen the sons and daughters. Let it lie, let it bleed... let it be the memory"

kaleb :: [July 06]