MP3: The Warlocks – “So Paranoid” from Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, out now on Tee Pee.
Stripped down from an eight-piece to a four-piece, Bobby Hecksher and his streamlined crew bring back the psychedelic brain sizzle they’ve perfected. Great album art, too.
Previously: I’m Freaking Out! (2002), wherein the Warlocks leave Phil Wise and Johnny Loftus cowering in fear…
The Warlocks – Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
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Be warned peoples: It ain’t like Phoenix. And it certainly ain’t like Surgery, but that’s probably a good thing. It’s a big ol’ slab of noise served with a side of unintelligibility that doesn’t have any of the more pop leanings of the last couple albums, or the folkiness of Rise and Fall. They removed a drummer, two guitarists and a keyboard player from the band, and yet somehow became *louder*. Or maybe just more uncompromising.