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Phoenix Album is stuffed with enough drug references to sedate half of Los Angeles, the hometown of acid-punk badasses the Warlocks. Phoenix is a loose concept album about overindulging in chemicals, love and guitars, and it mainlines feedback. "The dope feels good," Bobby Hecksher sings, summing things up as the six-strings drone. But the Warlocks aren't so much about zoning out as they're about taking off. Stacks of guitars, sitars and lap steel zoom atop a double-drummer barrage; "Shake the Dope Out" feels like the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" taking a road trip to Altamont, and "Hurricane Heart Attack" builds like a tsunami. The ten-piece band locks into a succession of trance grooves, until by album's end it slips into blissful oblivion for the fourteen-minute "Oh Shadie." What a trip.
GREG KOT
(From RS 920, April 17, 2003)
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Track List
- Shake The Dope Out
- Hurricane Heart Attack
- Baby Blue
- Stickman Blues
- Cosmic Letdown
- The Dope Feels Good
- Moving And Shaking
- Inside Outside
- Stone Hearts
- Oh Shadie
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