REVIEW: VALIS - VALIS

 

VALIS - VALIS (Abstract Recs., 2002)

Produced By: Van Conner and Wesley Weresch

Tracks: 1- Indian Giver, 2- Transmutor, 3- Universe, 4- Pass Me By, 5- Meatworm, 6- Yakima Preacher, 7- Kill the Ones You Love, 8- Universe 2, 9- All Phase, 10- Paper Doll, 11- Love Leader, 12- Pilots House

Cover Art by James Bender

Recorded at Uptone Recording Studio

This is pure rock and roll with a seventies feeling in the guitar sound. The music here is really direct and has a lot of guitar and vocal arrangements in the vein of some seventies band (there is some stoner rock sound in some parts too). I liek the way this recording sound because it is really direct and this guys have a sound that I had not listened for a long time. Each of the songs here have power and interesting melodies with some psychedelia in some parts. The mix of the album gives a modern touch to the band´s music that is really welcomed because the guitars sound really in the front and they donm´t have some muddy guitar sound that amny stoner rock bands use trying to sound like seventies band. Here you have pure rock with some heavy feeling and some interesting atmospheres.

Favorite tracks: "Transmutor", "Pass Me By" and "Paper Doll"

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