December 23, 2000

REESE


Album Review: Alchemysts

ZERO ZEN
By DARRYL STERDAN



ZERO ZEN
Alchemysts
(Rubric)

Detroit rawk is alive and well -- and living in the quiet countryside of Somerset, England. Introducing The Alchemysts, three U.K. yobs who have quite obviously spent years in their basement tinkering with elements of '60s blooz-rock, from The MC5's distorto-soul and The Stooges' proto-punk to The Seeds' dark majesty and even the garage-psychedelia of Count Five. In the end, what they discovered was a simple formula: Three guys + three chords + a handful of dive-bombing guitar riffs + a few hard-driving, Bo Diddley drum beats + some fuzz-bomber bass lines x one distortion pedal = solid sonic gold. Kick out the jams, boyos.

Track Listing 1. Terranaut
  2. The Psychic Fayre
  3. Fault Line
  4. Glass Cars
  5. Rocket 69
  6. Gone
  7. Electromagnetic North
  8. Black Hole Kickout
  9. Time Travel For The Lonely
  10. Your Summer Ghosts
  11. DMT Blues
  12. Spores
  13. Achievement Song
  14. Antidote
 


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