HeavyPink Flower and Song b/w There is a Light 7″
The Maple Forum
When Mos Generator split in 2009, they were working on an album that was going to be called HeavyPink. Well, Mr. Mos himself and friend of the Beard, Tony Dallas Reed, has taken that album’s concept and name off of the shelf on which it’s sat these last few years, dusted it off, and recorded an experimental solo project. The result is this two-song EP of mystic heaviness, and we find Reed (who sang, played all the instruments, and recorded it in his own HeavyHead studios) reaching back into the foggy past yet again, only where his current band Stone Axe channels the almighty rock, HeavyPink lays down a tremulous psych-doom that sleeps in graveyards and plays in opium dens. “Flower and Song,” then, is the moonlight-bathed A-side while “There is a Light” is the red light-dusted B-side, but both contain well-fused avant-garde and goth metal elements. Reed himself explains HeavyPink’s sounds as, ‘Master of Reality, Pet Sounds, and Into the Pandemonium all in one and produced by Phil Spector,’ so let THAT permeate your brain, but to me it’s a wonderfully unexpected noir punch from a certified cosmic rock master.
Listen to “Flower and Song” from Flower and Song b/w There is a Light 7″!
You should see it around here, man. It’s all exploding hearts and raging boners and hot sparks, which kind of sounds like a sweaty Saturday night at the steel mill, but really it’s just me on cloud nine in the rock n’ roll sky that opened up above me the second I dropped the needle on this glorious slab of coke bottle clear wax. A new C’mon record can, without much effort at all, make your entire life worth living, so the fact that it’s been three years since their last full-length, Bottled Lightning of an All Time High, means we’ve been comatose for quite awhile now. But here comes our heroic power trio, Sir Ian Blurton, Katie Lynn Campbell, and Dean Dallas Bentley, riding in on this pale horse to save the fucking day, to shock us back into coherence with their brilliantly boss fuzz n’ roll. Beyond the Pale Horse, then, is like a shot of adrenaline right into your balls, like most C’mon albums are, naturally, and like previous albums, its beauty lies in its beastly nature, its ability to shift and deviate while still remaining furiously savage. The play this time is that the electric noise is saturated in dreamy effects, and C’mon mixes some foggy, psychedelic magic in amongst their usual motor-driven madness. Dig the catchy title track and the majestically groovy – and unusually long – “Fortress of the Night” for the freakiest examples. But for sheer riffola, “Midnite is the Answer,” with its stoner crunch, is the one that pumps my blood. C’mon prove, once again, that they are almighty and untouchable.
*That’s not the record I own, but it looks just like it. Courtesy of whomever took the pic. It might’ve been Tony.
Ok, I don’t have an mp3 from the album to share (I just got it in the mail), so go buy the album from Yeah Right! to hear it for yourself. In the meantime, enjoy an older C’mon video of them washing their van and kicking it live!
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