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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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Made up of former and current members of Bottles and Skulls, Fleshies, Lower Forty-Eight and a drummer who is in too many other bands to list, San Francisco’s Triclops! are a veritable hybrid of the Bay Area underground punk/hardcore scene.
Triclops!’s “trademark” are their vocals, which for about half of Out Of Africa are run through broken solid state amps with a phaser explosion – achieving a sound that I can only describe as how the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala would sound singing underwater. While slightly off-putting on first listen, the phasered vocals effects – delievered by Fleshies’ Johnny – become pretty aurally addictive over the course of the album, so much so that when the effect is not being used, I found myself anxiously awaiting it’s return.
While Triclops! wisely avoid redundancy by straying from the sounds of their members other projects, instead opting for a much more experimental (bordering slightly on feeling of delirium) sci-fi sound, some songs do get bogged down on their way to extending past the six minute mark. Triclops! are at their best on the first three songs on Out Of Africa, with bright moments interspersed throughout the remainder of the album.
Out Of Africa is out now on Alternative Tentacles, and while it only has seven songs, it clocks in at around 37 minutes.
MP3: Triclops! – Freedom Tickler