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Originally Posted by whorefrost
“Armed” is phenomenal. Robbie Yeats sets up an almost-groove, not so much Can as Xhol Caravan, over which guitarists Bruce Russell and Michael Morley collide in peaking waves of six string euphorics. The feel is somewhere between the endless brokedown Crazy Horse-isms of a track like “Outside” from The White House and the kind of bloodyminded amplifier worshipping instrumentalism of albums like New Electric Music. It feels anthemic while still managing – somehow – to undermine every conventional signifier of ‘rock anthem’. Which is precisely what makes them the greatest rock band on the goddamn planet.
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nailed it. fantastic record, very much the confluence of new electric music and the far more organic, psychedelic sound of the late siltbreeze output.