Comets on Fire
Comets on Fire hail from Santa Cruz, CA. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarist and vocalist Ethan Miller and longtime friend bassist Ben Flashman, who were seeking to create a rhythmically and sonically intense music that paid no attention to categorizations -- all the while being suckers for anthemic rock riffs, psychedelia, and crunching crescendos. The band came together when Flashman's pal Noel von Harmonson and his Echoplex entered the picture and drummer Utrillo Kushner showed them what he could do with a drum kit. (No less an authority than {$Jul...[more]
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This is the Bay Area band's third album and first for Sub Pop; it's also their most varied and richly textured. On Blue Cathedral, their trademark modern psychedelic sound is enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning out Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of "Harvest"-era Pink Floyd. As Julian Cope said, "Comets On Fire deserve our gratitude...for their distillation of all the best rock riffs since High Rise's take on Blue Cheer..."
CD $13.99
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The follow-up to Blue Cathedral is an earthy, more accessible, and downright beautiful album. Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans to Quicksilver to Procol Harem to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets On Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant.
CD $13.99
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VINYL FORMAT. The follow-up to Blue Cathedral is an earthy, more accessible, and downright beautiful album. Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans to Quicksilver to Procol Harem to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets On Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant.
LP $12.99
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First full-length release by psycho-psyche freaks COMETS ON FIRE. COMETS deliver dark and damaged acid rock served in a crude and blown out speedball of BLUE CHEER, HIGH RISE, JAMES WILLIAMSON and a shit-faced-drunk Roxy-era Eno. Methamphetamine and Schnapps-drenched lullabies take it straight into the sonic shit storm, shifting from 4/4 power rock to imploding free form. Echoplex treated tales of drug-crazed space travelers, graverobbers in love and cosmic cannibals. Recorded by COMETS ON FIRE onto 4-track [ read more ]
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On Field Recordings... gone are the punk leanings hailed by the underground upon the first album's release. In their place are towering tombs of natural ethereal beauty and pure sonic destruction - set above a cosmic freight train of unhinged riffs and jagged grooves. Comets on Fire entered Tin Green's studio in San Francisco with only bare-boned riffs and ideas for the songs on Field Recordings..., allowing the precise moments of artistic creation and structural formation to be captured direc [ read more ]
CD $13.99
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VINYL FORMAT. On Field Recordings... gone are the punk leanings hailed by the underground upon the first album's release. In their place are towering tombs of natural ethereal beauty and pure sonic destruction -- set above a cosmic freight train of unhinged riffs and jagged grooves. Comets on Fire entered Tin Green's studio in San Francisco with only bare-boned riffs and ideas for the songs on Field Recordings..., allowing the precise moments of artistic creation and structural formation to be [ read more ]
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Ass-and-cerebellum-bruising meltdown; hellish riffing and scree tempered with the noisy fandango of a full-time echoplex. Numbered edition on the band's own label. W/ Noel from the Lowdown.
MP3 $10.49
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The follow-up to Blue Cathedral is an earthy, more accessible, and downright beautiful album. Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans to Quicksilver to Procol Harem to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets On Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant.
MP3 $6.30
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This is the Bay Area band's third album and first for Sub Pop; it's also their most varied and richly textured. On Blue Cathedral, their trademark modern psychedelic sound is enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning out Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of 'Harvest'-era Pink Floyd. As Julian Cope said, 'Comets On Fire deserve our gratitude...for their distillation of all the best rock riffs since High Rise's take on Blue Cheer...'
MP3 $8.99
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Ativin German Water, Don Caballero Don Caballero 2, Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
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The follow-up to Blue Cathedral is an earthy, more accessible, and downright beautiful album. Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans to Quicksilver to Procol Harem to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets On Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant.
MP3 $8.99
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Ativin German Water, Don Caballero Don Caballero 2, Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
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On Field Recordings... gone are the punk leanings hailed by the underground upon the first album's release. In their place are towering tombs of natural ethereal beauty and pure sonic destruction -- set above a cosmic freight train of unhinged riffs and jagged grooves. Comets on Fire entered Tin Green's studio in San Francisco with only bare-boned riffs and ideas for the songs on Field Recordings..., allowing the precise moments of artistic creation and structural formation to be captured dire [ read more ]
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