The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sgt Pepper

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3...according to our Phil on Thu 18 Feb, 2010.

After years of hating the BJM, thinking they were total gash pie I finally gave in with 'My Bloody Underground' and thought they were pretty good. I started to see the fuss. Subsequent releases have been so so with the odd decent track here but let's say it's all been reasonably patchy. The opener to 'Who Killed Sgt Pepper' starts off sounding like Transglobal Underground with it's early 90's ethnic beats. After that the fuzzy psyche rock reappears and hangs about until 'Lets Go Fucking Mental' where you can hear Anton has actually done this as he chants Lets Go Fucking Mental for far too long in his best cockney accent. This is what happens when you take too many drugs and drink too much booze in Iceland.... There's some interesting moments on the album and it really veers from style to style and never particularly stays in one place. Which is why on first listen this sounds like a compilation of lots of different bands... either that it's multiple personalities all shining through. Actually it sounds a bit like every period of Primal Scream on one album. It's an album which falls somewhere in between ambition and ridiculousness. I'm unsure....

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(Part Of The Cargo Collective) The vinyl is 2LP (180GRM) White with Purple splatters Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with an US tour inbetween the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album , “Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?”. Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized) , Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) & Felix from the Russian band “Amazing Electronic Talking Cave” & other musicians from France , Germany , & Iceland , this is the band’s most multi cultured re-lease to date ,while obviously keeping the band’s trademark style throughout this album . 13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats , to rock , to shoegazing , to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all twinged with the psychedelia of the band .

1 TEMPO 116.7 (reaching for dangerous levels of sobriety)
2 TUNGER HNIFUR
3 LETS GO FUCKING MENTAL
4 WHITE MUSIC
5 THIS IS THE FIRST OF YOUR LAST WARNING (ICELANDIC)
6 THIS IS THE ONE THING WE DID NOT WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN
7 THE ONE
8 SOMEPLACE ELSE UNKNOWN
9 DETKA ! DETKA ! DETKA !
10 SUPER FUCKED
11 OUR TIME
12 FEEL IT
13 FELT TIPPED PICTURES OF UFOs

5...according to anton alfred newcombe.

phil check this out buddy-your best thinking has you working at a record shop in leeds mate...don't need your fucking thoughts on my art that has me doing whatever the fuck i want anywhere in the world,an ltd in the uk with full time employees and paying tax to the uk and supporting my family.you fucking grumpy tit.enough said.anton alfred newcombe

Rating: 5 out of 5

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