Wonderful Rainbow (CD)
The much-anticipated follow-up to 2001's album Ride the Skies, Wonderful Rainbow pulls out all the stops. Recorded loud and proud over a year, this record grabs your throat with eight songs of bass so nasty it sears human flesh on contact, and drums so mighty they liquefy brain cells on impact. Yes, reference two-piece/crazy/heavy rock bands like Ruins, Slayer, and (Soul Discharge-era) Boredoms, but you'll come up a few cents short on every pound of this two-ton heifer. Lightning Bolt fills rooms all over this land, and this record is gonna fill the bill for those wanting extreme and heavy rock music taken to the top of the mountain. Great for a late-nite dance party.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Hello Morning |
| 2 | Assassins |
| 3 | Dracula Mountain |
| 4 | 2 Towers |
| 5 | On Fire |
| 6 | Crown of Storms |
| 7 | Longstockings |
| 8 | Wonderful Rainbow |
| 9 | 30000 Monkies |
| 10 | Duel in the Deep |
| Sharp, Susan
- Worcester, MA, |
| Lightning Bolt, true to its very apt name, produces an onslaught of thunderous noise in a rocky landscape. LB's 2003 release, Wonderful Rainbow, starts out with Hello Morning, calling listeners to attention, which is easily kept by even the most ADD listeners due to the frequently changing time signatures, textures and different levels of cooperation between drums and bass.
Wonderful Rainbow has an intense sense of physical immediacy; the album retains the feeling of a live show (which they set up on the floor, right with the audience), with raw and uncut tones prevailing. The noise, coming even from crappy little computer speakers, permeates and penetrates, the melodic sections contrasted with heavier, more chaotic passages. The chaos that is Lightning Bolt must not be taken as pure audio anarchy, as each song provides intense organization as well. Crown of Storms (track 6) exemplifies the balance between order and disorder, and the line separating the two that LB loves to play with.
Before jumping into LB fandom, it's important to know what you're getting into. This probably isn't your little sister's music. | |
| Tom Speaker
- Beavercreek, OH, USA |
| When ''Assassins'' kicks in, this record does not stop. It's the perfect introduction to any new listener, tactfully remaining faithful to both classic-rock and heavy-metal standards. The only song that taints it is the closer, ''Duel in the Deep,'' which spends too much time rolling around in repetition to be wholly interesting. | |
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