Saturday, September 06, 2008

the great tyrant @ aquariusrecords.org

some of the best rekkid reviews you can read online appear on the website of san francisco's aquarius records. here's one they wrote on the great tyrant's "candy canes" 7" with cd-r:

GREAT TYRANT, THE "Candy Canes" (Dada Drumming) 7"+cd-r 4.50
It's been ages since we've heard from Yeti, the killer bombastic space/psych/prog rock band from Texas. The Great Tyrant features two of the fomer Yetis and if anything is even more bombastic, but in a bit of a new direction. Yeti definitely had some musical drama going on, a hint of Goblin, but this new band takes it WAY farther, into something weirder, more gothic and WAY more dramatic, crooned vocals, lots of piano, bells and chimes, but wrapped around some off kilter metal, a sort of blackened circusy metal, blast beats over swirling dizzying melodies, the sound weirdly new wave-y and a bit punky, with synths and twisted textures, a very dense tripped out slab of doomy blackend space pop? Or something. It's hard to describe so that must be a good thing, definitely want to hear more from these guys. The swirled colored vinyl 7” comes with a cd-r featuring 3 extra tracks and A MAGMA COVER!!!

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