HW: California Brainstorm

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> On 28 Apr 2009, at 13:19, Steve Swann wrote:
>> (rightly or wrongly) Choose Your Masques has never been one of the albums 
>> that gets talked up a lot...
> I have to say that I never really warmed to the RCA albums that much! :)

 	I rather like the RCA albums but they suffer from a terrible lack 
of songs. The few that are there have proven durable--and I even like 
`Coded Languages' though I wouldn't have wanted to see it live--but 
they're partly drowned by filler and marred by electric drums. But the 
eerie synth explorations make it up for me. `Void City', `Virgin of the 
World', `Dreamworker' and `Psychosonia' all qualify as yer actual head-
messing psychedelia as far as I'm concerned. And then there's `Fahrenheit 
451', `Arrival in Utopia', `Rocky Paths' and `Angels of Death' along more 
traditional lines. But of course there's also `Star Cannibal', and the 
dodgy remakes. I think if all the remakes were thrown out and replaced 
with unfinished Hawklords tracks never released, of which there seem to 
have been some, those albums would all be far stronger. Yours,
 								Jon


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