Trompe le Monde

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  1991

  James

  A blast of distortion and sci-fi weirdness that feels like a band burning bright on the way out. It’s abrasive, surreal, and strangely hooky. The album pushes toward harder, cleaner rock without entirely abandoning the band’s weirdness. Their cover of "Head On" is revelatory, "U-Mass" and "Bad Dreams of the Olympus Mons" are among the band's greatest. Black Francis sounds increasingly manic and isolated, especially on “Planet of Sound” and “Motorway to Roswell.” The sci-fi imagery and surf riffs give the record a strange metallic sheen. The chaos is the point.

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  All Time

  Trevor Swenson