From Mars to Sirius

Stars vocalist and occasional Broken Social Scene contributor Amy Millan is a pop singer by trade, but a country-rock singer-songwriter at heart, and on her debut solo album, Honey From The Tombs (Arts & Crafts), she revisits some twangy ballads she wrote half a decade ago. Some (like "Baby I" and "Blue In Yr Eye")…

Although their first two efforts, 2000's Terra Incognita and 2003's The Link, had been quite impressive in their own ways, Gojira's third album, 2005's From Mars to Sirius, was the one that really stamped the French quartet's all-pro credentials, gaining them access into the exclusive top echelon of the world's progressive metal elite.

GOJIRA have, on their third album, unleashed an epic. This is a masterpiece on par with anything MESHUGGAH or MASTODON have released, that sort of massive, lumbering, seething wall of sound that the listener just can't help but become immersed in. "From Mars to Sirius" is a journey that'll take many...

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius review: Heavy, beastly, but unoriginal, and tedious at 66 minutes long.