Comets on Fire - Avatar
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Artist: Comets on FireEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-08
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- Dogwood Rust
- Jaybird
- Lucifer's Memory
- The Swallow's Eye
- Holy Teeth
- Sour Smoke
- Hatched Upon The Age
Free Music Notes for Avatar
Free Music Review: Comets Smash Avatar Into Rock History
Hit: 5 Stars
Well not quite... but really, really close. I mean the cover is great... the music is even better. "Avatar" is easily the best 2006 has to offer. It could be the rock album of the century (since the year 2000 of course). Nothing you hear will sound like this... well at least nothing you've heard in the last 25 years. Comets On Fire's music is a throwback to 70s acid rock and psychedelica. And this album is their best yet.
Dogwood Rust is spectacular. Sour Smoke progresses with a slow, haunting chant to the Rock Gods with drums and guitars to back it. There's more words spoken/sung on "Avatar" then the last few Comets On Fire albums--- or perhaps the vocals are just a little bit more understandable than they have been in the past.
This album easily rivals anything modern progressive bands Tool, The Mars Volta, and Porcupine Tree (for that matter) has put out. There's really not much else to say... you'll just be wondering why you didn't listen to Comets On Fire sooner.
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The follow-up to "Blue Cathedral" is an earthy, more accessible, and downright beautiful album. "Avatar" veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans to Quicksilver to Procol Harem to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets On Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant.What we have here is pretty simple: Men with beards. Blistering blues-rock riffs. Songs that refuse to die. On its fourth album, Comets on Fire takes the very foundation of rock 'n' roll (well, from the good years on) reheats it and serves it back up in gargantuan portions. We're talking the eight-minute solo-heavy opening track, which roughly approximates what it would have sounded like if the Stooges ever jumped on stage with the Grateful Dead. Produced just as well, too. Yes, this Santa Cruz quintet that shares member Ben Chasny with Six Organs of Admittance might occasionally qualify for jam-band status, but give them some credit. Phish could never come up with songs as euphorically ugly as "Lucifer's Memory" and "Hatched Upon the Age." --Aidin Vaziri
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