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Passover,The Black Angels

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Passover

The Black Angels

Released 2006

   
Young Men Dead 05:32 89,791 plays
   
Black Grease 04:32 33,750 plays
   
The First Vietnamese War 03:30 33,273 plays

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Young Men Dead 05:32 89,791plays
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The First Vietnamese War 03:30 33,273plays
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The Sniper At The Gates Of Heaven 04:16 30,733plays
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The Prodigal Sun 04:22 29,128plays
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Black Grease 04:32 33,750plays
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Manipulation 05:49 25,555plays
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Empire 05:35 22,177plays
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Better Off Alone 03:03 23,190plays
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Bloodhounds On My Trail 03:58 25,763plays
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Call To Arms 18:06 16,007plays

album review

"Black Grease" says it all, blackly: Austin's Black Angels temper stoned Black Sabbath drone with Black Keys bluesy bombast, producing a sort of boozy psychedelic White Light/White Heat in the process. The aforementioned song takes the record's central aesthetic idea and spirals it out of control. The shamanistic lyrics here rise as a single mantra of "Kill, kill, kill, kill," and the filthy reverberating guitars are kept to an acidic simmer, all so that Passover's real focus -- that is, Stephanie Bailey's insidious percussion -- reaches a level of unconscious insistence that feels almost locomotive, tumbling over itself too fast to safely stop. Other tracks, like seething, stately "Empire," wear the band's Velvet Underground influence more proudly, keeping the drums at a steady patter and letting the guitars scramble like rats up a well. Passover is a reactionary record, trading in Vietnam imagery and tired Doors tropes in places as easily as it does stoopid-awesome stoner rock in others, but it seems a reaction of the very best kind -- that is, free of agenda, full of ideas, and fun. ~ Clayton Purdom, Rovi

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