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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Here's some more awesome "hippie" stuff.

Posted By on Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:34 AM

You indie record store kids have undoubtedly already digested the new Comets on Fire album, Avatar. I think it's pretty bitchin.'  Some of it even reminds me of Secret Treaties-era Blue Oyster Cult.

A few tracks are throwbacks to '72, but they're convincing nonetheless. Others point to a new future for song-based, electric psych.

Check it:

"Dogwood Rust"

"Lucifer's Memory"

    

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Casey Rea

Casey Rea was the Seven Days music editor from 2004 until 2007. He won the 2005 John D. Donoghue award for arts criticism from the Vermont Press Association.

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