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JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER, "FIG. 5"

Don't let the nameof the group fool you, this is hardly something to overlook.
Perhaps theWeekly World News was right about the mass alien abduction of rockmusicians, returning them to the earth with subliminal memories andvisions of surgery and probes,... Here's one of the results - thefourth album from a band who'll never get anywhere with their name, butthen again it took a little bit of work to try to convince peoplegodspeed you black emperor! wasn't a thrash metal band. It's not jazzbut it sure is damned close to free-form, while the tracks stretch fromsurrealistic interplays of percussion, clarinet and saxophone toelectronic drone play with guitar, a ten minute improvisationalrendition of Amazing Grace and some twangy western-style ditties. Myonly recommendation is more indulgence in the electronic, but those aremerely my own musical tastes manifesting.

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