Warlocks

Phoenix

Phoenix Album is stuffed with enough drug references to sedate half of Los Angeles, the hometown of acid-punk badasses the Warlocks. Phoenix is a loose concept album about overindulging in chemicals, love and guitars, and it mainlines feedback. "The dope feels good," Bobby Hecksher sings, summing things up as the six-strings drone. But the Warlocks aren't so much about zoning out as they're about taking off. Stacks of guitars, sitars and lap steel zoom atop a double-drummer barrage; "Shake the Dope Out" feels like the Modern Lovers'... Read More

"Roadrunner" taking a road trip to Altamont, and "Hurricane Heart Attack" builds like a tsunami. The ten-piece band locks into a succession of trance grooves, until by album's end it slips into blissful oblivion for the fourteen-minute "Oh Shadie." What a trip.

GREG KOT
(From RS 920, April 17, 2003)

CD Track List

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Phoenix (2003)
1. Shake The Dope Out
2. Hurricane Heart Attack
3. Baby Blue
4. Stickman Blues
5. Cosmic Letdown
6. The Dope Feels Good
7. Moving And Shaking
8. Inside Outside
9. Stone Hearts
10. Ohshade

Track lists are from a 3rd party source.
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