The kings of drone rock are back with a heavier sound than last time. Hearing Starflyer's music real loud helps make sense of what they're doing. They kind of emit a groove that pulsates like a heartbeat with guitar feedback just a breath away.
If you ever want to grab your emotions and bring them down, Starflyer is the perfect band to do it. Instead of the knockout punch that doomy metal uses, these guys will hypnotize you with their ethereal heaviness.
I have to admit, though, that the disco-type keyboard sounds in the "Joy Electric Mix" of "Blue Collar Love" is too techno pop for me. The rest of the album, though, is all "industrial Prozac" (as Butch of LC would say).
Like many other experimental artists, people will either love this music or be so alienated by it that they disdain it. Like it or not, though, Starflyer 59 is very effective at creating moods from their instruments, and that is to be commended. If you ever wanted to take pop music and give it a slow, grueling death, this is the way.
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Salt #24Reviewed by RoadrunnerIf you are one of the few poor souls who have not yet discovered Starflyer 59, get this, it's cheaper & almost as long as the LP but just as great. The title song & "She Was My Sweetheart" are new & continue the mesmerizing feeling of the debut. The "Joy Electric dub mix of Blue Collar Love" is decidedly Depeche Mode. New songs "Canary Row", "Salinas" & "The Drop" from the 7" are all produced by…Similar sounding releases
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