Phosphene Dream

AlbumSep 14 / 201010 songs, 36m 17s
Psychedelic Rock
Popular
7.2 / 10

Austin psych-rock band's third LP finds them peeling back the psychedelic murk and tempering their bad vibes with a hint of flower-power homage.

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As if to answer criticisms that the band is better at fetishizing the past than writing songs for the present, The Black Angels’ third LP, Phosphene Dream, comes to a howling climax with the twitchy rave-up “Telephone.” Even with a brief diversion into hootenanny harmonizing, the song lasts just long enough—two…

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Phosphene Dream kicks off with a storm of tremolo guitars and zombie-croon vocals called "Bad Vibrations" and moves on to doomy cuts like the Velvet Underground-style drone "True Believers."

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On paper, the Black Angels should have been laughed out of town when they’d released their debut, Passover in 2006.