Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls says: "If current instrumental music was always as majestic and compelling as this, I'd hang up my Retro-Italian Soundtrack collector's boots for good. From the explosive drum rolls on the opening track, the only cover on the record, L'appel du Vere, from Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" (music by Phillipe Sarde), to the darkly exotic finale, "A Housewife's Dream", this album is a superbly crafted mosaic of whipcracking vengeance, speakeasy hallucinations and haunted geography. Besides the Italian Western overtones, the carnival-esque freakshow backdrops, Khorshid-Egyptian guitar passages, and flipped-out electronic space-psych, are perhaps the best surf-inspired tracks I've heard in years. It's spine-chilling how producer Randall Dunn managed to make this record the ultimate mid-60's Surf-Vampire-Western revival soundtrack. Elements of Joe Meek's best Moontrekkers productions cross with a dash of Badalamenti murder blues drums of Dave Abramson to leave their indelible stains across this 41-minute epic journey."
I concur. Excepting the fact that I hate when things are described as "epic." Other than that, I stand by these statements.
Shadow Instrumentals
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