IMPORT. LIMITED QUANITIES. With Lupine Howl, the trio take their trademark dynamic explosiveness and import a more driving rhythmic feel with a wider variety of musical styles. Lupine Howl - the sound of Spiritualized's psychedelic soul married to a Spencer Davis backbeat and a Memphis Soul Band attitude.

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After being dismissed from Spiritualized, the members of Lupine Howl obviously had a lot to prove. Their first post-sacking release didn't quite do the trick, basically reprising what they did in Spiritualized but with weaker material. The group adopts a slightly different tactic here, and while the album starts with a big blast of glam, the rest of the songs here are much more gentle and easygoing. That doesn't mean they're anything new; on the contrary, most of the album recalls another time, wh...   [ read more ]

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The sophomore effort from art house nu-metal practitioners Otep only briefly flirts with the genre's anarchic political leanings ("Warhead"), focusing instead on the medium's most revered theme: angst. The lupine howl of a shattered youth proclaiming that "I hate my life" is nothing new, so when frontwoman -- and namesake -- Otep screams the phrase endlessly throughout "Buried Alive," she's channeling everyone from post-rock mouthpieces Gordon Gano and Exene Cervenka to pop/rock ...   [ read more ]

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