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CASTROVALVA: "Castrovalva" (Brew Records)
RELEASED? 4th May.
SOUNDS LIKE? Hard rock,
modern, inventive, violent and
subtle. Technology is deployed
with wit and skill so we get sliced
as well as battered. The guitars
are magnificent, the opener, "Max
Rhodes" being a glorious
headfuck of metal wah-wah and it's
all good to great from there on in
as they cheerfully and smartly gut
art-rock, prog-rock, math-rock and
late 60's psychedelic rock to make their own seamless Frankenstein.
IS IT ANY GOOD? This is fucking brilliant, twelve out of ten, if it's not the rebirth it's certainly the tasty fried afterbirth of hard rock.
WHERE IS IT? www.brewrecords.net