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Express (Remastered)

Love and Rockets

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Album Review

Rich in sonic detail, the neo-psychedelic Express offers a listening experience like no other album — guitars spiral to dizzying heights from beds of sound, arrangements swirl, songs change and mutate. "Kundalini Express" typifies Love and Rockets' approach, chugging along for several verses before breaking open and ascending into the heavens; Anglo-fied Eastern religious imagery and philosophy predominate lyrically, and in tandem with the psychedelic music, offer an almost quasi-religious experience. John A. Rivers (who also co-produced Love and Rockets' first album) outdoes himself with the sound on this disc, offering a huge, unique canvas for the band to paint its sound on: crystalline acoustic guitars cut through thick, distorted tones, and the bass is an equal player to the guitars and drums. "Yin and Yang the Flower Pot Man" is ecstatically upbeat, offering a propulsive rhythm, flailing guitars, and insistent bass — a compulsively danceable and bliss-inducing track. "An American Dream," meanwhile, is an anthem of sorts, with distinct sections setting apart the moods of hope, disillusionment, and acceptance.

Customer Reviews

Bloody Brilliant

That's the best way to describe this album. Bloody brilliant. Especially for it's time, it was unique, thoughtful, and outright amazing sounding. The only other band with a sound remotely similar to there's would be their previous incarnation with Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, or the shoegazer/post-punk band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The album leads off with "It Could be Sunshine" which starts off somewhat mellow, but takes a sharp turn towards hard, borderline goth rock halfway through. The intensity and overall musical creativity continues throughout the album and on into the bonus tracks. Both covers in the album (Ball of Confusion and Lucifer Sam) are awesome twists on the original versions, and everything else is quite simply innovative, different. The songs range from the elegant (An American Dream) to the intense, to the outright bizzare like Life in Laralay. I HIGHLY recommend you buy the whole album, but the stand out songs are: "Kundalini Express" "All In My Mind" "An American Dream" "Holiday on the Moon" "Lucifer Sam" "Ball of Confusion" Buy it, love it.

Rock and roll at it's finest.

I totally agree with that dude thanking L&R. I have no idea how many good times i had while this album was playing, but it was a whole lot of them. This is a fantastic rock and roll album but they have a lot of other excellent material. This album is partially responsible for me deciding to be a musician. A classic, for sure. Most of the bonus material (tracks 11-15) would be a waste of something, were they actually wasting anything.

These guys are the best

There's no other group of musicians that compare to these guys, they're so unique and always have been, if you can - try to absorb all they've done and find their work and related material (exercise for the student). The best thing about their music is that it is seemingly always done for themselves, which gives it life and humanity, along with it's sinister ways (hehe). This is a very well developed album seemingly meant more for the mainstream. Songs 11-14 weren't on the CD i've got...Lucifer Sam's a cool tune I had to get. If you guys ever read this, thanks for all the decades of good tones and effort you've put into something that will survive the until the skies gone out...

Biography

Formed: 1984

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s

Love and Rockets comprised guitarist/vocalist Daniel Ash, bassist/vocalist David J, and drummer Kevin Haskins, all former members of the pioneering goth band Bauhaus. However, the group didn't sound very similar to its first incarnation. Instead, Love and Rockets emphasized the strains of psychedelia and glam rock that appeared underneath Bauhaus' gloomy drone, adding elements of pop songcraft, folk, and R&B, as well as cryptic, self-important lyrics. For most of the late '80s, the group had...
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