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Album Review

AWESOME COLOR – MASSA HYPNOS

Awesome Color

Massa Hypsos

[Ecstatic Peace!]

5/10

Michigan/Brooklyn three-piece Awesome Color mine a squally, American garage-psych sound, making like Dinosaur Jr Juniors on a cosmic (school) trip. They do, however, also have some major consistency issues on this, their third album. The ace card is ‘Vision’, a heart-pumping, three minute blur that leaps out of the speakers, all energetic riffola, nimble bass and indecipherable hollering. Suddenly it’s 1969 and you’re freaking out – in a good way. Quality control slips however with ‘Zombie’, which sounds like a mid-tempo Kings Of Leon with a broken microphone, and on ‘IOU’, which repeats a pedestrian riff for 393 seconds you won’t get back. There’s a groove of sorts here but it’s largely too restrained to rock out to, and desperately lacking in voodoo magic. While it’s refreshing to hear genuinely unforced, organic music-making, here it’s also a frustrating affair.

By Gordon Anderson

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Fabulous Diamonds II

[Chapter Music]

6/10

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Mount Carmel

[Siltbreeze]

5/10

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Mines

[City Slang]

7/10

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Church With No Magic

[Warp]

9/10

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Kaleide

[Wichita]

6/10

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Melted

[Goner]

8/10

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King Of The Beach

[Bella Union]

9/10

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Devil Sold His Soul

Blessed and Cursed

[Century Media]

5/10

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Hawk

[V2]

7/10

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Crazy For You

[Wichita]

8/10

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Gira Gira

[Upset The Rhythm]

8/10

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Cerulean

[Anticon]

8/10

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In And Out And Back Again

[Hozac]

7/10

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[Tempa]

8/10

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Expo86

[Sub Pop]

4/10

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