VINYL FORMAT. With its jarring rhythms and unusual instrumentation ? marimba, accordion, various percussion ? as well as its frequently surreal lyrics, Rain Dogs was very much a follow-up to Swordfishtrombones, which is to say that it sounded for the most part like The Threepenny Opera being sung by Howlin' Wolf. Rain Dogs could not surprise as Swordfishtrombones had, and in his attempt to continue in the direction suggested by that album, Waits occasionally bordered on the chaotic (which may only be to sa...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Having recorded a fistful of critically acclaimed--and increasingly successful--albums with neo-psychedelic pioneers Comets On Fire, frontman Ethan Miller lit out for fresh musical territories somewhere between the Santa Cruz, CA-based band's familiar maelstrom and a more organic, melodic, groove-oriented rock that hearkens back to his halcyon daze growing up on California's "Lost Coast" (Humboldt County), home of lumberjacks, college students, unreconstructed hippies, and off-the-grid botani...   [ read more ]

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