The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band

The long wait from 2005's "Solstice" has been hard on the fans of Brimstone, and to call their new album overdue would be an understatement.But in this case the album is well worth the wait. The music on the album is of a qualityunparalleled in the history of Brimstone, and it is destined to become one of the albums of the year in 2009. The production techniques of H.P Gundersen and the rise in songwriting skill of the band provide the listener with a musical smorgasbord seldom seen in modern music. To try to label the music is an almost impossible task. That the music has a deep root in the 60/70s tradition of music is clear but the amount of references, genres and originality makes most comparisons invalid, and any attempt to denounce Brimstone as "retro" or "stuck in the past" plain silly. The songs easilytranscends such fare, and the reviewer intent on pigeon-holing the band will have his work cut out for him.



Take for instance the way "Animal Riot Hill" segues impeccably from an almost Arctic Monkeys-style power rocker with Allman Brothers -guitars to a beautiful sax/mellotron-coda that wouldn't have been amiss on "In The Court Of The Crimson King", the pastoral acoustic beauty of state-of-the -world ballad "Godspeed Mother Earth" , the contrast between summery chords and dark lyrics on "A Hill Of Beans" or the pumping melodic grace of "Spain" with it's superb Beatle harmonies The supergroovy Latin rocker "The Great Yeah" conjures up the vision of what "The White Album" would have sounded like if Santana had recorded it, the infectious chug of first single "Sanctimonious High" is impossible to resist. The list could go on and on. There's only one thing you really have to take into consideration: The Brimstone Solar Radiation has made a killer album, and you would be a fool not to buy it.



And after you have listened the album to shreds, you can take consolation in the fact that Brimstone already have started work on their next album.



The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band



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