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Illuminati, The Album Review
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Tracklist
1. Lemmy Know
2. Salon Kitty
3. Wingspan
4. On My Way Back Home Again
5. All The Time In The World
5. Absinthe Makes The Heart
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Plain and simple, The Illuminati fucking owns the classic rock commotion that has been resurrected this decade. Infected with a gritty, rough-around-the-edges vibe, ragers like 'Salon Kitty' and 'Lemmy Know' extract the best elements of prominent Michigan 70's rockers Ted Nugent and MC5 and spits out a fireball of in-your-face jams of a nature that is to be seriously reckoned with. Most often, the group focuses on all out barn-burning rock, but moments during the otherwise up-tempo 'Salon Kitty' and the progressively tinged 'Wingspan' should be interesting to anyone that is fascinated with mid-1970's contemporary rock sounds. Likening 'Wingspan' to Jethro Tull is not far off the mark, but somehow The Illuminati takes this once-popular sound and make it fresh again.
'On My Way Back Home… Again' incorporates traditional boogie elements with a very Southern sounding bridge that approaches impressions of meth twang. Meanwhile, 'All The Time In The World' grooves like ZZ Top or The Amboy Dukes during some moments.
If there's one thing that must be said about these fuzzed-out raiders, it's that they should be bestowed accolades for having taken a sound that has otherwise remained dormant and re-fabricated it in a manner which no band, stoner rock or otherwise, has been able to match in decades. Putting this act on a bill opening for Clutch would make an excellent pairing, but this single point of reference cannot begin to sum up the stellar grooves and convincingly for-real feelings that this band espouses in abundance. If you're a groove-oriented rock lover, you simply must pick up this ass-kicking record.
Review by: Erin Fox
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