(Indie / Psychedelic Rock / Shoegaze) The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes - 2009, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

01. Red Camera
02. The Midnight Sun
03. Slowly Disappearing
04. Standing Between The Lovers Of Hell
05. There Is A Formula To Your Despair
06. You Make Me Wait
07. Frequency Meltdown
08. Static Eyes

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review by Alexander Rennie
What's the usual form for a band releasing their fifth long player, taking into account a dwindling public profile and a forthcoming tour of ever more 'intimate' venues? A change of direction? Gimmickery? A high profile electro remix? Well, frankly, the Warlocks are possibly about as likely to reinvent themselves as the Fall is of doing an operetta or iLiKETRAiNS going disco. An ominous crescendo of chugging guitars within two seconds of the start of track one, signals the beginning of another album bringing more of the same. Cue thick waves of dry ice and the departure of anyone who hadn't already been won over by their previous output.
This is, of course, not a bad thing per se. I happen to have a soft spot for the eerie drone purveyed by these gloomy L.A. fuzz merchants, and I could probably take several more releases like this without giving up on them. The only slight reservation I have about this latest slice of brooding noise is that, like much of its predecessor (2007's 'Heavy Deavy Skull Lover'), it seems set to a relentlessly slow tempo. Gone are the great emotional surges of tracks like 'Shake the Dope Out' or 'It's Just Like Surgery' that punctuated their earlier catalogue.
So, whilst there may be little to rock out to here, as a whole it's an accomplished mood piece that dares to offer a couple of minimalist gems amongst the wailing. The extremely sparse 'There is a Formula to Your Despair' tiptoes like Yo La Tengo at their most restrained, whilst 'You Make Me Wait' and album closer 'Static Eyes' master the slow build (albeit without ever quite capturing the ecstatic climax for which one might hope). In between there are few out-and-out misses, although the meandering, and slightly uninspiring, white noise of the appropriately titled 'Frequency Meltdown' comes close. Listening to an untuned radio might've been only marginally less rewarding.
'Standing Between The Lovers Of Hell' is as close as we get to a classic Warlocks crowd-pleaser (if there's not something slightly oxymoronic in that phrase). This is the sort of sound that turned people onto tracks like 'Isolation' when the millennium was still young. In general terms, therefore, maybe this is a band that have actually evolved over that time - even if not totally in ways which I'd have chosen. This is not to detract from a solid album, however, and one destined to soundtrack a few late nights at home; at least round at my dingy bolt-hole, if not at the elegant pad of your average big spender at HMV.

The Warlocks - американская психоделическая рок-группа, основана в 1999 году и базируется в Лос-Анджелесе.
Дебютный альбом группы «Rise & Fall» был выпущен на Bomp records в 2000 году. После заключения контракта с Mute records, группа выпустила альбом «Phoenix» в 2003. На альбоме было представлено большое количесво настроенний и разной атмосферы, от драйвовой «Shake the Dope Out» до 14-ти минутного галлюциногенного опуса «Oh Shadie». «Baby Blue», ретро-звучащий 7» и CD сингл, вышедший с LP включал ситары, фидбэк и поп-звук заподного побережья 60-х годов. Дополнительные трэки на сингле включали две песни с их альбома, записанные во время британского тура «Inside Outside» и «Hurricane Heart Attack». Последняя песня включала выступление бывшего фронтмена Spaceman 3, Питера Кебера.
После возвращения Дженни Ррейсер, вышел альбом ‘Surgery’, в 2005 году на Mute Records.
В 2007 году был выпущен альбом «Heavy Deavy Skull Lover» на Tee Pee Records и группа гастролировала в составе шести человек, вместо обычных семи. Музыка стала более мрачной и появилось заметное влияние шугейзинга.
В 2009 году (19 мая) вышел новый альбом группы «The Mirror Explodes».
Состав, приведенный на оффициальном сайте группы: Bobby Hecksher - гитара, вокал; JC Rees - цвет, тектсура, шумы; Corey Lee Granet - гитара; Jenny Fraser - басс; Laura Grigsby - орган, кейборд; Bob Mustachio - ударные; Jason Anchondo - ударные.