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    HM Magazine #79/Fold Zandura
    Fold Zandura — King Planet cover

    Fold Zandura

    King Planet

    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

    Apple Music
    Label independentHM Magazine #79September 1999
    alternative rock

    This prolific outfit is once again mysteriously out of a record deal, so they've released this 7-song disc called King Planet on their private-issue Nowhere Music label. The title track finds the band rocking as loud and straight-up as ever, with nice layered vocals and phat distorted guitars. There's definitely some reminders of the late great Mortal here... The band is sounding fantastic here. Fans of anything on MTV in the last ten years, from INXS to Depeche Mode could find something to cling to here. Purists will love the dreamy "Lunar Wave," which could easily be the soundtrack of a new Volkswagon commercial or something. While always loving the music these guys have created, I've never fully embraced the Fold Zandura incarnation . . . until now. This stuff is too good for its own good.

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