The 76 year itch...
I made my weekly stop at Guest Room Records in Norman and found a great new album. I was really looking for the new album by the Fiery Furnaces on the review I read about it on Pitchfork. GRR was out of stock for the second week in a row so I had to look for something else. I just couldn't come out of there empty handed.
I ended up grabbing the recently released album by Comets on Fire - Blue Cathedral. This was also one I had only read about from Pitchfork's rave review. I found out this record was actually playing in the store while I was browsing. I actually didn't know if I liked it at first from the brief listen in the store. It turned out after listening to the entire album all the way through I totally dug it. It is a fireball of energy, it actually sounds like a comet on fire, if I could guess what that would sound like. I can see a lot of influence of Led Zeppelin and Hendrix but with a modern take on it. In some ways it also reminded me of the way The Mars Volta is influenced by these old classic roots but adds a new spin on them. The classification that comes to mind for Comets on Fire to me is psychedelic tinged post-punk. I can also see a big influence of bands like Gang of Four and Wire.
Hopefully, I can get Fiery Furnaces next week and it will turn out to live up to the hype as much as Comets on Fire does.