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Rating: Yet another chapter of the experiment being expertly led by the dynamic Josh Homme, voice of QOTSA, ex Kyuss, etc. Therefore, I want to follow up on the excellent work done by djd with the desert sessions 5 & 6, by churning out the eccentric "7 & 8".
I must state right away that this is not pure stoner rock, but a genre so innovative that it could only come from the mind of "The Genius Child Brain".
The dances open with the chant "Don't Drink Poison", akin to a lament that strikes your eardrums with its drums and mandolins, frenzied choruses of souls follow one another throughout the track. Attention, Mark Lanegan is arriving with the celestial "Hanging Tree", a sly version of the homonymous track present on "Song For The Deaf" by QOTSA: simply sublime.
3rd track: "Winners" is a fairly unnecessary micro track of transition in my opinion, but it introduces the mean "Polly Wants A Crack Rock", a rather punkish yet very experimental track, with a background voice panting and emitting ambiguous little verses.
Closing the "Desert Session 7" part and opening the "Desert Session 8" is Natasha Schneider's (ex Eleven) raspy voice with "Up In Hell" and "Nenada", hypnotic and repetitive ballads with a very oriental feel, strange at first listen, almost boring, but very expressive with a more attentive listen (a clichéd phrase but I assure you it's true)!
The labyrinth of sounds continues with "The Idiots Guide" and "Interpretive Reading". The first is a classic stoner track in QOTSA style, and indeed, at the lead we find the great Josh himself, no comments needed; the second is an unsettling choir performed by the Vienna Girls Boy Choir, a sort of overture leading into the last part of the album.
"Covousier" is another transition track that has little to do with the rest of the album, moreover abruptly cut off halfway through.
Hold on tight because "Cold Sore Superstars" and "Making A Cross" are coming, the most extravagant and emotionally overwhelming pieces of the album, for me the best, very melodic and enjoyable to listen to, and endowed with great energy.
Here we are at the end with the tracks "Ending" (indeed) with a tremendously metal voice thanking us continuously by screaming at the top of its lungs: "Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, ladies and gentlemen, thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu", and "Piano Bench Breaks", mini ghost track.
I want to remind you that 90% of the tracks are sometimes fortuitous jam sessions, immortalized by Josh and company (Brendon Mc Nichol, Samanta Maloney, Chris Goss from Masters of Reality, Nick Eldorado) at "El rancho de la luna", Southern California.
The only flaw of the album is the rather poor mixing, a flaw which nonetheless takes almost nothing away from this pleasant and innovative work.
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