Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: Way back in 1994, author Simon Reynolds coined the term “post-rock” when writing for The Wire. The spreading of that coinage proceeded to drive countless enervated trios and quartets to substitute pretention for fire, which resulted in college dorm rooms stacked with CDs bearing testimony to an utter inability to rock. The unfortunate side effect (or should I say, one of the unfortunate side effects) was the clutter that accumulated around, and obscured, the bands that were in fact taking rock to new places.
It’s been five years since the trio called The Psychic Paramount made our year with Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural, one of the finest sets of brain-cleansing, high-intensity power rock in the last decade. After we began to think that we wouldn’t hear from them again, the band finally saw fit to release its much-anticipated second album (not counting the more abstract Origins & Primitives release), II. Once again, Ben Armstrong (bass), Jeff Conaway (drums) and Drew St. Ivany (guitar) remind us what it’s like when a band that truly does rock also grasps texture and atmosphere, and doesn’t let go.
Continue reading: Dusted Reviews: The Psychic Paramount – II.
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