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Psychic Paramount - II

Review by Noel Gardner

If Comets On Fire made great capital from pushing the basic idea of Blue Cheer to the outer limits, these guys have grabbed the COF baton, eradicated every last trace of woolly hippy from the aesthetic and replaced it with clods of homebuilt-robot-gone-bad industrial, the MBV end of shoegazing and spiritually cleaning noise music. »

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immense noise attack from the psychic paramount on no quarter that sounds like a can concert circa 1972 with a 747 crashing into the venue while the band continue playing. 'ii' is the second intended-to-be album by the psychic paramount, weeks of heavy weather arranged into 40 minutes, recklessly focused energy, white-out conditions. there are no words in the psychic paramount's music; their diction is extraordinary and precise. the album has gritty and powerful bass foundations, walls of effects clinging to frantic guitar, and a drummer who swiftly keeps the waves crashing.
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